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    "id": 1112740,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Yes, Madam Temporary Speaker. This Bill came before this House and I spoke passionately about it. When this Bill came before this House, I received a Master’s thesis from a student who also works with the EACC. That student had done research on the legislative framework for lifestyle audit in the country. I had also done some academic consideration for the proposed Bill by Sen. Farhiya. Some of these Bills have come back to fulfill the processes that were defined by the courts of law hence we do not need to reinvent the wheel and repeat the things that we had said in the previous debate. I know that all those issues are sitting somewhere in the HANSARD. We owe this nation a legislation that will ensure that the people who make the decision to go into public service as state officers or public officers know that they are signing up for. Those of us who serve in churches over the weekend as elders or deacons or deaconess do not expect payment. We go there expecting to render service to the Lord and we commit ourselves to that. My mother, a long standing deaconess, would clean the church every Friday. She would prepare meals for the visitors and would go out to attend the crusades aimed at winning souls. She does not expect to be paid for that role. Why then should state and public officers who take the calling to serve the public want to milk the nation dry so as to enrich themselves in the process? I still believe that the Ndegwa Commission Report that allowed public servants and state officers to do business with the same entities that they were running was a bad decision. It is the reason as to why children who have studied procurement and supply chain are richer than those who studied law, engineering, information technology and medicine. That is because they become experts in overrunning the systems to their benefit. The President talked of electronic procurement and we thought that it was going to bring transparency into the process. What we did not know was that there were people who were five steps ahead of everybody else. One would place their bids online on an Integrated Financial Management Systems (IFMIS) procurement platform just to be told if their bid were the most competitive or not by people within that department who were trading information. The Lifestyle Audit Bill (Senate Bills No. 36 of 2021) is necessary for it will help us audit and see what our state and public officers have been up to during their tenure. One of the recommendations of that student, who also works with the EACC, was that there could be other pieces of legislation that are doing what Sen. Farhiya is attempting to do and that our problem to a large extent, has been implementation rather than the absence of a legal framework."
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