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    "id": 114436,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/114436/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ojaamong",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Labour",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 196,
        "legal_name": "Sospeter Odeke Ojaamongson",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Teso community fought so hard to come out of the larger Busia District which has now been put as a county. It is not their wish and they never asked to be returned back to that county. There were other options. The Constitution is supposed to make almost everybody happy. After former President Moi liberated us from Busia District, for you to try to force us back where we do not want to go, I think we had the better option. We shall be freer in Uganda than being in Kenya because we have more of our people on the other side of the border than here. This is better than being oppressed. The President said that when we were on recess, we should have consulted our constituents. I tried my level best to go round the constituency and their feeling is that they do not want to be part of the Busia County. They would rather remain alone. they would be very happy and lead a very good life if they were given their own county. I am appealing to the Members of Parliament when they go for the retreat to give us a very kind consideration. When it comes to the issue of corruption, what motivated me to come to Parliament and leave my noble profession was because I noted that there was immense corruption in our country. I felt that after being elected, I might be able to bring change. When we came in through the NARC Government, we were very hopeful that we would tackle corruption which has derailed our country. I want to join Mr. Khaniri and Mr. Mbadi in saying that our President has just offered lip service to the issue of corruption. At one time, I suggested that, had we frog matched two or three of these corrupt individuals to Uhuru Park and killed them by firing squad, it would have sent a very strong message to the rest so that this vice of corruption is not made a culture in our country. For the seven years I have been in Parliament, I have never seen any big fish that is involved in corruption being handed even a sentence worth the destruction they have done to Kenya. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is my appeal that even though we will reform the Judiciary, I want to join Mr. George Thuo who said in his contribution that we should modernize the Judiciary so that we have the HANSARD there to record the proceedings so that the Judges and magistrates are able to conclude these corruption cases timely. Let me talk about the two projects which have been suspended which really affect our people in western Kenya; namely, the Kenya Educational Sector Support Programme (KESSP) and the Western Province Community Driven and Flood Mitigation Project. These were very key projects which were going to change the lives of our people in"
}