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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I do not want to say much. I think I have said so many things on this Bill. It is not a cut and paste job. I can assure Mr. Mungatana because I have had the opportunity of going through it several times. I have had to sponsor it and debate it before committees. I can assure you that it is a homegrown Bill, as has been explained by the Minister for Finance. Really, by passing this Bill, we would be sending a signal not just to the rest of the world but particularly to our region. The message is that Kenya is not a haven for ill gotten wealth. Kenya is a place where people want to do clean business. Kenya is a place where we support only those who have clean money to invest and we all make money together without quick hot money that comes into the economy and by the time it goes out, it goes with our good money. It never leaves without taking away what it found. That is the real disaster created by this. We saw that happen globally. It happened in the United States of America (USA) and the United Kingdom (UK). We saw Iceland being declared bankrupt. It was the first country ever to be declared bankrupt. This was because she entertained money finding its way into her economy. When the money eventually left without having been anchored on proper fundamentals, the economy collapsed. We would not want this country and economy to collapse. The impact it would have is far reaching and is bigger than Kenya. It would affect the entire East Africa. It would destabilize the entire Africa. I think we owe a duty, as this House, to protect the economies around us by ensuring that we have the necessary safeguards to ensure that corruption does not get cleaned and benefit anyone. Nobody should benefit from the proceeds of corruption. This House has a duty, this afternoon, to send that signal and say: “Nobody shall benefit from corruption in this country”. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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