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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. M’Mithiaru",
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        "legal_name": "Ntoitha M'mithiaru",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the exposition of the public policy as contained in the Presidential Address during the opening of the Fourth Session of the Tenth Parliament. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, in his Speech, the President expounded very well the exposition on public policy. He gets commendations from Kenyans for that. We would like to see the spirit of the Address being acted on especially on corruption. This is because the culture of corruption and impunity must come to an end. We know that corruption and poor governance are bedeviling our Government. We hope that all Government departments will now be required to be very efficient and ensure that all the policies governing public institutions are properly adhered to. This includes what we call “quality assurance of Government”. If a job is supposed to take one or two days, it must be exactly that. The issue of “come tomorrow” or “come and check” should come to an end. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the promises of the Government in this august House must be looked into. Hon. Members ask Questions and Ministers answer them for the sake of it and nothing is done. That must come to an end especially now that we have the Committee on Implementation. This Committee should follow up any promises that are made on the Floor of this House to ensure that they are implemented. A case in point is the Maili Tatu – Lari – Mutuati Road which is in my constituency. The Minister promised that this road would be tamacked in the 2009/2010 Financial Year, but nothing has been done to date. Those are issues that require the Government to pull up its socks. The other issue is on the mismanagement of our resources. We know Kenya is endowed with many resources. If those resources are efficiently utilized, I am sure we will live in a country in which everybody would be happy to live. Unfortunately, you find that there is misallocation and mismanagement of resources that goes unnoticed and is sometimes just condoned. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, a case in point is the scandal bedeviling the Ministry of Education. Apart from the embezzlement of the training funds, there is also the issue of book funds. This House would like to see a special audit report of all the books supplied to primary schools. This is another avenue which has been abused. Suppliers take invoices to schools without supplying the books. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the President also talked about inefficiency and integrity of our judicial system. We know that justice delayed is justice denied. In our courts today, we see a lot of inefficiency. I am sure it was because of that inefficiency and the mistrust, by even this House, that we were unable to trust our judicial system to oversee the creation of a local tribunal for the trial of perpetrators of the post- election violence after the 2007 general election. The justice system is the central nerve of any country, because that is where justice is dispensed. I have a case in point of our High court where there are very few judges, and you find that cases have stalled and you get a backlog dating back five years. For instance, at the Meru High court, the judge who is there is trying very hard, but then they cannot cope with the amount of cases that there are. Take Maua law courts manned by magistrates; this is where you see dispensation of injustice. It is corruption that operates here. There is no justice that is meted out at all. I should even ask the Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs to ensure that, that particular place is overhauled. He should bring in additional magistrates and judges to ensure that justice is effectively dispensed. On the police reforms, this is all about public image; what we are seeing is that the people we are supposed to get protection from, are the ones who are feared by the public. This is an area that we would wish that the new Police Commissioner instils proper discipline in his force to ensure that the police-public image is improved."
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