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    "id": 1111681,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1111681/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "million and the salary of that officer was Kshs45,000. That is a distortion. There is no way you can be earning Kshs45,000, you have no returns to Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) showing that you own rental incomes where you have earned that money from. You have just received kickbacks. Madam Temporary Speaker, that is why I agree with the proposals in this Bill that we should give powers to the EACC to go and get court orders to block such accounts. If you are not able to explain to the satisfaction of the court the source of your income, then you should lose that money. That is the only way we can effectively fight corruption in this country. The data is there. The countries that are ranked that have populations that are the happiest in the world, they are the ones which are also ranked as being least corrupt. Like Finland, in the last 10 years, if you look at the data from Finland, the residents of that country have been ranked as one of the happiest in the world. If you go to the corruption index, they are also ranked as the least corrupt. Same to New Zealand. Madam Temporary Speaker, that is why we have so many youthful Kenyans who are, day in, day out, dying to relocate to New Zealand. We can make a New Zealand in Kenya. All that we need to do is to put in place a framework that can effectively tackle corruption. This Bill is such an attempt. We have done so many things. Nowadays, if you go to school, you would even find that the EACC is running integrity and anti-corruption clubs in schools so that we can bring up future leaders who have known the values of integrity. That is how desperate this country has gotten so that we are trying to put in place every mechanism that can inculcate good virtues on our future leaders. Madam Temporary Speaker, when we look at sectors, some of the sectors that are most corrupt are the ones that are in the interface of Kenyans day in, day out. For example, the National Police Service (NPS), everybody doing business interacts with the Kenyan police. You are a transporter from Mombasa to Uganda, you will always interact with them. If you are a Kenyan who is trying to eke a living through boda boda because there are no jobs, you will interact with them. If you are a Kenyan running business, you will interact with them. Virtually every Kenyan that is in business will interact with a policeman one way or the other. Yet police force is ranked as the most bribery prone institution in this country. Madam Temporary Speaker, if you speak to boda boda riders because I have had an opportunity to interact with some of them, they will tell you that at times when they are in trouble, the police take the entire income of the day. Their profit is maybe Kshs800. If they find themselves in the wrong hands with the police, the police take everything. These are poor Kenyans. They are riding motorcycles on roads that are poorly maintained. When they go back to their homes in the evening, it is even a struggle to smile with their spouses because they are so tired. That we are so merciless and inhuman as our country that we again take from these poor young Kenyans and it is not their fault that they are not able to find jobs. It is because as a Government and as a country, we have not been able to put in place mechanisms to find jobs for these people."
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