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    "id": 1112814,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 129,
        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
        "slug": "james-orengo"
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    "content": "This lifestyle audit gives you a choice that if you are a public officer, you have to make that choice. You have to live in accordance with Chapter Six of the Constitution and all the wealth that you acquire must be explained so as to give the public confidence that they have leaders who are looking after public affairs and public assets and not messing around. This is the problem that we continue to have in this country. When public officers are in situations where they can opportunistically make money, they then become our heroes. It has gone to the people of this country that they condemn corruption but not necessarily the fruits of corruption. Madam Temporary Speaker, I want my sister, Sen. (Dr.) Milgo, to come back to the Senate. However, to face that election without resources and assets is extremely difficult. We are in a very difficult situation in dealing with the cancer of corruption. I am sure Sen. Farhiya has heard of a Ugandan who used to be the Mayor of the city of Kampala. He was a very popular political figure but was arrested in the streets of the United States of America (USA), tried and convicted for offences which relate to corruption and money laundering. However, when he came back to Kampala, he was being cheered like a hero. A correspondent of the BBC asked somebody in the crowd on the route between Entebbe and Kampala why he was cheering a man who had just been convicted of very serious offences in the United States of America (USA) like a hero. The person replied that, “We know that he is a thief, but he is our thief. He is our son and he is generous.” There is need to have civic education for us to make this quantum leap where there is public outrage against wealth that is made unjustly. If we do not have civic education, we may not be able to deal with the animal of corruption. When my sister, Sen. Farhiya, drafted this Bill, she went to great lengths. If this Bill is used properly; with men and women of integrity who are supposed to implement this Bill and have institutions of integrity, then that will be a great contribution in the fight against corruption and making sure that there is transparency and accountability within our public service. I still think that we are in a situation in this country where we deal with corruption at very low levels. We are still not in a situation where we are ready and willing to deal with corruption at the highest level. Until that happens, the fight against corruption will come in seasons. When you have a new leadership, they say, ‘we are going to fight corruption’ when they are about to leave office, they say, ‘we are intensifying the war against corruption. By the time they leave, everybody is saying this is the most corrupt Government in the history of the country."
}