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    "id": 1134120,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. If you look at this country, the most opulent persons are former or current civil servants. Are they hardworking than the ordinary Kenyans sitting in front of me here? Do people go to public offices to work for the people of Kenya or to work for themselves? These are big questions we have to ask. Until and unless we instill respect for public property and public resources in this country, we will continue having these problems. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you and I come from a county where we see this happening. A person who did not have a cent when he came to office now goes around displaying obscene wealth. Every funeral he attends he says: “When I finish talking to you as mourners, follow me and queue up for money”. That is not his money and this is happening in full glare or full view of institutions of governance. I want this country to empower the offices of the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI), Directorate of Public Prosecution, (DPP), Judiciary, Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission (EACC) so that we can be able to fight corruption. I am told that even some of these offices have been infiltrated completely. The Auditor-General rolls out reports every year, and every time you read and follow the stories of the Auditor-General, it is like a crime story. It is like an Agatha Christie novel where crime is there and every single individual has an opportunity and a motive to commit that crime. We know them but we do nothing. If we want this country to grow--- We have said this; I am not saying anything new. The President has said it. We in the political arena have said it. These Senators here have said it and my Chairman here has been saying it, that it is not enough to engage in unhelpful rhetoric about the war against corruption. It is very important that we fight corruption."
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