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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Busia County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Catherine Omanyo",
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    "content": "We have heard of people getting billions of shillings in this nation and they hide it. Some videos of a Member of Parliament counting dollars in sacks hidden in the house have gone viral. If a Member has money and he knows he made it in clean ways, it is better to keep it in the bank. Why should people dig holes in their houses or have sacks and suitcases stashed with a lot of cash? We hear people talking of either grace, luck or being in the Government side and saying it is their time to eat, as if it is a joke, until somebody wrote a book about it. Corruption has been normalised. It is high time we stopped just talking about the word “corruption” and seal the gaps that are there for corruption to take place. As a new Member of Parliament, I know that corruption is already in the system. You are told, “If you do not do this, we will not pass this. If you do not part with this amount, we will raise an audit query.” So, we have three or four stages. In every stage, you must part with something or else you will be framed. You realise this is what has been happening since time immemorial. You find that your work is derailed and nothing moves because you have not parted with something. Let us give an example of the recruitment of police officers that is coming soon and other dockets that have come before. Somebody must bribe to get a job. A child born in a peasant’s home or a family which hardly makes a dollar a day cannot part with that money."
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