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    "speaker_name": "Kanduyi, FORD – K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Makali",
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    "content": " Thank you for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the Report brought by our senior parliamentarian, Hon. Shakeel Shabbir. Before I make my remarks on this Motion, permit me to congratulate you for turning up in my constituency to encourage learners and parents during our education day. They actually mandated me to thank and welcome you again. I must thank the APNAC Committee for the Report. We must all agree that corruption is a vice that has destroyed economies, families and countries. There must be concerted effort to fight it from all fronts. It is clear from the Report that APNAC constitutes parliamentarians. As we all know, Hon. Deputy Speaker, parliamentarians are the representatives of the people. They exercise delegated power. They have a good forum in which to champion the fight against corruption. I have looked at the recommendations of the Report. It is heartening that the Report congratulates this House, through its Speaker, for being at the front line in the fight against corruption. However, as we speak, we are not sure about the legal framework under which APNAC operates. I know it is African parliamentarians against corruption. We need to come up with a legislative framework borrowed from APNAC that will champion the fight against corruption from our end. As a new Member in this House, I will take the gauntlet thrown at our feet. I will enrol into this particular Committee immediately after this so that we champion the fight against corruption. As indicated, there is a lot of corruption devolved from the national level to counties. We need also to have similar organisations in counties to fight corruption there. We realise a lot of corruption networks are undertaken at the county level, specifically through procurement schemes. Equally, we must partner with other key players, specifically the civil society. It requires a multi-faceted approach. The civil society plays a very critical role in spreading awareness and sensitisation of our people on the wars of corruption. This House can play a pioneering role in ensuring we sensitise our people. Equally, there is facilitation and funding; I am very sure that this Committee would not have gone to Doha if this honourable House had not facilitated it or funds set aside for its activities. This fight requires all of us. We require funding and facilitation in this fight to explore all new forms of corruption coming up and mutating in various forms. We also need to look at the structures we have put in place, specifically the EACC. Its efforts are towards investigation and prosecution. We need to indicate another area that has not been critically emphasised. This is the area of ethics and values. As we push legislation in this House, we need to strengthen institutions that are there to fight corruption. We should split it up to our institutions of learning, specifically our schools. That is so that we inculcate ethics in our learners. With those remarks, Hon. Deputy Speaker, I wish to support the Report."
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