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    "id": 1179666,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13217,
        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for this opportunity. I want to congratulate the residents of Kawino North Location in Kisumu County for having faith in the Senate to be able to address this issue of EACC graft investigations. When you look at the Constitution, the EACC has been given an enormous task, of course, coming out from Chapter Six on Leadership and Integrity and the subsequent Acts that have been passed by Parliament. The sad reality is that nowadays, instead of the EACC investigating corruption and arresting perpetrators, they are accomplices in crime. We have so many issues on this country including our counties. Our counties are now the bastions of corruption simply because the EACC nowadays does a swoop, then make headlines in the newspapers and media houses. This goes back to 2009. Where is justice in this? I remember when the EACC appeared before our Committee of Justice and Legal Affairs in the last session. The only conviction they brought to this House was a conviction of Kshs20,000 bribery. The report that they submitted to the Senate is on the HANSARD. Millions of Kenyans money continues to be plundered, laundered and stolen and yet the EACC just sits back doing nothing. I believe if the allegations that have been raised by these petitioners are anything to go by, then the EACC has turned itself into the perpetrators of corruption in this Republic. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, finally, justice delayed is justice denied. If these investigations were done in time--- Sometimes, you see a swoop in some of the agencies like county governments. It looks like there are some officers within the EACC who collude with some of these senior county officials, where they do a fake raid, inform the governor and then it just disappears. You never see the matter before a court of law. The EACC must up its game. They have failed this nation. We have given them enough resources but they cannot even convict a chicken thief in this country because of the obvious reasons. The EACC should stop going to eat with the thieves. That is what is happening in this country."
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