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    "id": 1123231,
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    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. Let me take this chance to say that I support even though I do not know these people personally. In supporting, it has been notified that when you look at the commissions in totality, we need to see whether we have the face of Kenya. Sometimes, it may be difficult to see, in one commission, whether you have the face of Kenya but when it is manifestly crooked, then we need to think about it because then it can be challenged. I also just want to say that one of the things that I am happy about is that we are considering gender representation and equality. I just want to say one thing that even as these people are taking these positions, and I am hoping that we will be able to pass them, I am concerned about the growing politicization of the fight against corruption. I want to go on record on the Floor of this House that the bodies that are fighting corruption are increasingly being politicized as we go towards the elections. I raised it on the Floor of the House last year that the Suba North Constituency was actually given an order that there is loss of money which had not even been released. So, how can there be loss of money that has not left Nairobi to go to the constituency? Again, we are having a situation where the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission, over the same issue, is raising concerns in Suba North Constituency. The good thing about being correct in what you do is that you will not be fearful about raising them. I want to tell the Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission that we have thieves in this country and they should go for them and stop looking for ants where there is no issue. I am urging the EACC that if they do not stop politicising the fight against corruption in my constituency, then I am going to meet them in court. Nobody has sued them but I, Millie Odhiambo-Mabona, will sue them for politicizing the fight against corruption. I do not joke. I take people head-on because I know people in my constituency by names, the dates they took the money and the amount of money. I want the EACC to know that they are not the only investigative arm. I am also an investigator. I have the same information that they have and I will take them head-on. So, even as they fight corruption, you cannot be telling my constituency that they have stolen money which The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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