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    "id": 1272350,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I also rise to support the Report and appreciate Hon. Shabbir. Today I see young people running all over to register for World Coin. When I saw the line, I asked myself what all the young Kenyans were doing. Even if we are talking about corruption today, one of the forms of corruption we should be talking about is how people manipulate, influence, and lie to steal from our people in terms of different projects. You even wonder how this started. How were they given approvals to start such things? In the end, Kenyans will start crying again the way I am seeing them crying in the USA. An agency decided to take them there. Today they are homeless. They are on the streets in the USA and Canada. When talking about corruption in Kenya, the first thing we should be asking ourselves is how they get approvals. Look at how we are. Forget about even the things we are saying like they are in budget. It is in our minds. How we think. How we do our stuff. How we just start the designing of that paper. It tells you where the paper is headed and how it is going to affect us yet we continue. It is not enough as much as we are talking about it in Parliament, as much as we have this group and open governments’ partnerships. I really thank Principal Secretary, Dr Abraham Sing’oei. He has been very steadfast on open governments’ partnerships. I really call upon counties in open government partnerships like Nandi and Elgeyo/Marakwet. Let us join him in pushing this agenda of looking at open governments’ partnerships for governments. How transparently governments must work. Having said that, the easiest thing to do in this country is to take anything belonging to Government. I always say it is not about how you run the ministry. It is not about the Cabinet Secretary or the Principal Secretary. Corruption starts when you do not start with the officers who design projects that are to be done by Government. Corruption will not end until the day we accept that we need to come up with a law in this House. That is so that lobbyists doing these projects are given a percentage, either five per cent or ten per cent of the project. I think ten per cent will be very high. Five or 2.5 per cent can be very good to be paid to everyone who runs around with a project so that it becomes something very open. This will stop people asking what is in it for them. Before you even start a project, someone is asking for 10 per cent and you wonder how the project will move forward. Will the project commence or even last? Look at our airport, Hon. Deputy Speaker. It was turned into tents when it burnt. The tents are still there and yet it is an international airport. The money spent to do tents is more than Ksh2 billion! Just to make a tent! The only thing we can do now is to plead with the Cabinet Secretary, Hon. Murkomen, to save us from the grey thing we always see when we enter our airport. It was done very wrongly. A lot of money was spent on it. That money would have done a good building. You ask yourself why we cannot just build something to last, say, fifty years then do maintenance if we must have all this eating. We, as Kenyans, cannot be bench-marking all over the world yet unable to do the right thing. I plead with this House to push those doing projects in this country using huge sums of money to do something that will last for generations to come. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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