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    "id": 1147813,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
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        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "Secondly, the other Nominee, Dr. Cecil has an impressive Curriculum Vitae (CV) but the plot over. When she was at Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS), she did nothing to solve integrity issues there. There could have been a systematic problem and probably, we can excuse her for that matter. However, I urge the Members of this House, and the public that Mr. Ogallo is a wrong Nominee for that particular post. Hon. Speaker, the fight against corruption must be intensified. The friction between Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) and the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is a matter that needs to be settled. In the next Parliament, I hope the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs will find a way to solve their animosity. This is where EACC investigates and submits files, and the DPP for obvious reasons, does not prosecute. This is the reason why you find people who are so corrupt, and with integrity issues being cleared to hold public offices. They are going to sit in this House and obviously be at the forefront to curtail or even slow down the fight against corruption. That is why as a country, it is important we integrate integrity issues in our training system and education system; and must be of value amongst the children and the people of Kenya. We purport to be Christians and to some, they profess the Muslim faith, yet what is wrong and right is very clear. It beats the essence why we wake up in the morning carrying the Bible, sit solemnly in Church and when we go back home or after church, we commit crimes: we steal public funds and simply, do things that do not add up. It is a matter that we need to address as a society. Hon. Speaker, I go to many places. I was in Singapore the other day, courtesy of Parliament. There, they have few policemen and do not have an anti-corruption authority. This is simply because the culture of good moral values has been inculcated in to the people to an extent that they do not need to be policed. A typical Kenyan is, however in a rush to make money. That is why the buzz around town when devolution came was that we devolved corruption into the villages and everywhere. Nowadays, you will see village millionaires and billionaires wherever you go. Young people no longer want to work or study. They simply know that all they need to do is become tenderpreneurs, and they will make money. That is why many of them are unable to work. They believe that you just sit there, and things will drop like manna from heaven."
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