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    "id": 1112742,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "As we have always said, fish rots from the head. The recent stories that we have heard and the Pandora Papers that are being opened all over are giving the wrong message. I hope that the President will give the nation an account when comes back from the USA, as he had promised. The President said that the Pandora Papers will lift the lid on those who have ill-gotten wealth and those who have stashed proceeds of crime, money laundering, ivory trade and all sorts of things. I hope that the President will lead from the front by keeping the promise that he has made to the nation. I know that he will come back at a time when we have the simmering issues between Kenya and Somalia. Bigger foreign policy issues and bigger economic issues, but he has to slay the dragon of corruption that is perpetrated by those who have had the privilege of serving the nation in public and state offices. If he does not do so, then the next President will have one hell of a hard time. We are already on the verge of default of loans yet experts tell us that we just need to reduce our corruption by some percentage. It looks like people have given up on eradicating corruption in Kenya. I do not know if it is genetic that we have to now focus on its reduction. Initiatives like that of the Lifestyle Audit Bill (Senate Bills No. 36 of 2021) that has been brought by Sen. Farhiya should help us tame our appetite for public coffers and resources with the aim of enriching ourselves at the expense of the masses. All that I said on this particular Bill in the previous debate is in the HANSARD. My duty today is to support the Bill and to encourage the House to expedite it. Sen. Farhiya has struggled with this matter for a long time. This House has been talking about this matter for a long time. It is time for Sen. Farhiya’s Bill to become an Act of Parliament."
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