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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "We need to have a situation where people who gain from the proceeds of corruption are dealt with ruthlessly. I agree with Sen. Poghisio, that it is not a shortage of laws or institutions in this country. We have institutions of governance everywhere. We have county assemblies that oversight primarily at the county level. We have Parliament, the Auditor-General, the DCI, the EACC, the Office of the Attorney-General, the Judiciary, the Ombudsman and everybody, who is supposed to be looking at these issues and protecting public property. Even so, as the good old legal maxim goes who will watch the watchers? Being a lawyer, you know this. The watchers are not watching, so who is going to watch the watchers? That is the big question. It is not just Sen. Poghisio who receives these bizarre requests, but we also get them routinely. A young police officer can walk into to your office with shiny and sweaty faces, standing before and saluting you. They tell you that they are suffering in the police and need to be assisted to go to traffic so that they can man roadblocks and collect money. It happens all the time. You look at these boys and girls and they are from your village. You are probably the one who took them to the police. They see their colleagues whom they joined with doing “tremendous” progression in life, and they are just there. I am told that in the police service, the biggest punishment is one to be kept at the report office. The second one is to the crime office and the third one is to be posted to Parliament, and so on, and so forth. It is also considered as a punishment for the police to be assigned to guard Very Important Persons (VIPs) because there is no room to fiddle. If you go along the road, you will see heavy female police officers at roadblocks looking contented with life and openly soliciting and taking bribes from travelers and nothing happens."
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