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    "id": 1276843,
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    "speaker_name": "Alego Usonga, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samuel Atandi",
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    "content": "The information I have is that consultations have been revived now. What was consulted in the last financial year is being requested again this year, at the same fee. The consultants are the same; they just mark and copy the reports year in, year out. Consultancy is now a basis for swindling public resources. We need to investigate this. We realised that corruption in consultancy is budgeted for. I know of briefcase consultants who are always on Twitter. They support the Government on Twitter. They campaign for the Government on these social media platforms. They defect every morning. One day they are in support of the Government, the next day they are on the Opposition side. If they are invited for these consultancies, they then turn to the Government’s side. There is no value they add to the taxpayers. This House must be very vigilant. On national inclusivity, the Civil Service and the public sector are being run in a way that this House should not support. We cannot have a State Department where 90 per cent of employees come from one ethnic community. The best example is the Executive. We have one of the worst executives. The current Executive is ethnically and intellectually imbalanced. There are very few intellectuals in the Cabinet. If most of them were to be judged or rated against competent Kenyans, they would not even rate halfway. The ethnic and intellectual capacity imbalance is wanting. We cannot be told that the Government will do something about this. They cannot do anything because the fish rots from the head. When a Cabinet is constituted and it is rotten, it will trickle down to the small agencies in Government. I do not know what the House can do about this because every time such a Motion is brought here, even Members of Parliament regroup and look at each other in terms of tribes. In the end, it is Kenyan people that suffer. If this matter is raised here, Members from the Mount Kenya or from Coast regions will strongly defend their people. This is why the country is hurting. The question of regional and ethnic diversity is explained well in the Constitution. It is high time that this House became very tough and insists that this diversity should be reflected in public offices. Oversight is an important function of this House. This country is failing because we are not doing proper oversight. If we continue with the pace that Hon. Wamboka has set of presenting sharp-cutting reports like this one, we will influence other oversight committees to do the same. In the end, we will help this country in addressing the gaps such as weak systems and corruption in Government agencies among others as highlighted in this Report. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I support the Report."
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