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    "id": 1162742,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1162742/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13219,
        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
        "slug": "erick-okongo-mogeni"
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    "content": "This will ensure that when Parliament if appropriating money, it appropriates money for CoG because next time Sen. (Dr.) Ochillo-Ayacko will be the governor of Migori and he will realise that he needs the secretariat to serve him. Every time we review Bills here, we always consult the CoG to give input and comments on various Bills. There is no doubt that they need a secretariat and they need to be funded by the Government but there is a lacuna in law. The best House to address that lacuna is us. I will be appealing to Senators to support my proposed amendments to the Intergovernmental Relations Act so that the CoG secretariat is properly anchored in law. Madam Temporary Speaker, if we do not stop this plunder of public resources, corruption will become a way of life. It will be a moral code that we all glorify because you will be seeking to become a governor or a Cabinet Secretary so that you steal and amass a lot of wealth while our people are suffering. All forest fires start small and then they then become massive. If we do not proactively fight this monster called corruption very soon it will consume our land. Corruption as a matter of reality is ruining our land and that is why, as I finish if you give me one minute, I fully identify and support the Azimio candidate. He has come out strongly and given undertaking to our people that he is going to fight this monster called corruption. That is the only candidate that I have seen who has come out strongly and made an undertaking to the people of Kenya that he is going to fight corruption. Madam Temporary Speaker, if we do not rally behind people of good will who want to fight corruption, we are going to send a message to Kenyans that we have accepted corruption as a way of life in this country. I fully back ‘the Fifth’. I know god will bless him to become the fifth president of the Republic of Kenya, he should fight corruption from the front like. He should lead the war against corruption. That is the only way, if he seals corruption loop holes, we will get money for ‘Baba Care’, we will get money for social support. The Money that is stolen day in day out is enough to pay poor Kenyans from poor households a figure of Kshs6,000 every day. All we need to do is to seal the loopholes of corruption. I urge all Kenyans of good will who want to join hands in fighting corruption to support ‘the Fifth’. I can see the light signaling that my time is up. I support this report and hope that the oversight authorities; the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and all other entities will come together and ensure that they go through this report. Where necessary, they should conduct further investigations recommend further action. Those who are culprits should take pleas in our courts of law. I support."
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