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    "id": 114423,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Khaniri",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Information and Communications",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 171,
        "legal_name": "George Munyasa Khaniri",
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    "content": " I wish to take this opportunity so that I can also make my remarks on the exposition of the public policy contained in His Excellency’s Address, delivered from the Chair on the 23rd of February, 2010. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me from the outset state that as one of the longest serving Members of this House, having served four terms, having represented my people here for four terms consecutively, having listened to 17 State Opening Addresses of our Parliament by both retired President Moi and President Kibaki, I can comfortably state that I am one of the leaders who fully understand the problems that are ailing Kenya as a nation. I can also comfortably say that I am one of the leaders who can give concrete solutions to these particular problems. I strongly believe that the answers to the problems that affect this Republic lie in the political leadership. It is only the political class that can come up with the solutions to the problems that are bedeviling our nation. There are quite a number of these, but I will dwell on one or two; I am glad that the President also alluded to one of them, which is corruption. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are all aware that corruption is the single vice that has seriously brought the economy of this country to its knees. It is high time that this culture of corruption was eliminated from our society. The war against corruption is not going to be won through lip service. I want to state here categorically that in my opinion, the President is giving only lip service to the war against corruption. I hope the President wherever he is, he is watching this Parliament live, so that he can hear what we have to tell him. For his Excellency to come to the floor of the House and tell us that we are personalising the war against corruption, is to get it wrong. Corruption is perpetuated by individuals; to be able to get rid of this vice, we have to target those individuals. If that is what his Excellency is calling personalising the war against corruption, then I think he should suggest another way in which he thinks we can tackle this vice. It has to be personalised, because we have to deal with persons, the individuals who are the perpetrators of this particular vice. When the President comes to tell us that we should not politicise the war against corruption, I want to tell him that he is also wrong. Kenyans are looking up to the political leadership to tackle the vice of corruption. Moreover, most of the perpetrators of corruption are politicians, people in charge of Ministries, public servants. Therefore, if we are to deal with their corruption, we have to deal with these politicians. So, I think he got it all wrong when he stated that we are personalising the war against corruption. I think that is why this particular administration has totally failed in the war against corruption, and I am sorry to say that. We all know that as much as the Kibaki administration has made a lot of achievements in other sectors, it is during this particular administration that we have witnessed rampant corruption in"
}