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    "id": 1112781,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "The Government has honoured you by giving you security, but you still hire red- eyed goons to go with to public places to do all manner of dirty things. That is corruption. I urge the EACC to talk less and do more. I do not know if you can remember a time when there was a lot of fanfare about arresting people and holding press conferences. That was the first and last you could hear of the cases. At the end of the day, the cases are never prosecuted to the end because the evidence provided by the DPP is insufficient to get any conviction. Like Sen. Orengo will tell you, being a lawyer and yourself, Madam Temporary Speaker, there is a joke within our circles that you do not need to hire a clever lawyer. You just need to appear before a corrupt judge. You have heard of jokes like; why waste Kshs1 million on a lawyer when you can pay Kshs200,000 to a magistrate? It is disheartening to hear that. When we started practicing with our contemporaries who were magistrates like Martha Karua and others, we could appear before them. Sen. Orengo here can bear me out. When you adjourn, you would walk together at break time to Trattoria Restaurant and have a cup of tea and go back. If your client was guilty, she would convict and jail them. Being together was simply professional courtesy to each other, but things have now changed. This country needs to have a proper lifestyle audit. Korea is a corrupt country, but they have made corruption very painful. Do you remember that lady who visited our country two or three years ago? She was treated with a lot of fanfare. Women like Sen. Farhiya here were all up in arms that she was a woman President. She went back and she is in jail for corruption. So, corruption is not a male affair. It occurs across gender. Dilma Rousseff, the former President of Brazil was impeached and prosecuted for corruption. Sometimes we have the misconception that it is men who are corrupt. In fact, when women become corrupt, they are even more dangerous. Madam Temporary Speaker, I agree with Sen. Kajwang’ that we must revisit the sessional paper by the Ndegwa Commission that allowed public servants to do business with the Government. If you look around, everywhere, people who work for public entities are themselves traders with those entities. When you ask them, they say the law allows it. Where did the law on conflict of interest go? Where did the law on public probity go? Where is the law on public gander? It is all thrown through the window. Governors think they are cleaver. You will find a governor in one county trading with a governor in another county and vice versa. That is still corruption because when a governor calls another one and tells them they have a deal of Kshs200 million and ask for another deal, what is that? It is corruption by any other name and it is happening. Leaders in this country go to homes and towns to open grandiose properties owned by governors without asking them where they got money from. There is no evidence that you borrowed. We know your salary. You have built a property worth Kshs500 million and our leadership go there to open this property and say how hardworking this man is when he is a thief. It is a shame and we need to stop this. We are ready to be audited publicly by anybody and everybody. Where we have borrowed, we can lay it bare. You find somebody has not taken any loan; he has never won a charity sweepstake; he has never"
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