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    "id": 1076181,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1076181/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugunja, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Opiyo Wandayi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2960,
        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "It will be an under-statement if I said that all these three cases that I have mentioned are just but a tip of the iceberg. If you read through our Report, which is almost 1,000 pages, you will be shocked. Corruption consistently followed where money was in the public sector. The State departments that got more allocation for development budget; that is where corruption followed. In other words, corruption was directly proportional to the amount of money allocated for development. When a State department has no money for development, you expect no corruption. However, when you give State department money for development, you increase chances for corruption to flourish. That is one aspect. Therefore, we have made both general and specific recommendations that we believe, if implemented, we would, to an extent, deal with this menace. The other issue that I cannot fail to mention is the matter of the National Land Commission (NLC). Under the Land Act 2012, the National Land Commission has a mandate to pay on behalf of Government, entities that are intent on acquiring land for purposes of implementing public projects. The law is very clear in its original form and in the amended form on what steps need to be followed both by the acquiring entities and the NLC to ensure that the taxpayers' money is safeguarded. What we have seen is a litany, violation and abuse of the process as laid out under the law, under both the Land Act 2012 and the National Land Commission Act."
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