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    "id": 1283570,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1283570/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "If you want to find a ticket to heaven, accept the Lord and know that corruption is evil. I want to invite Hon. TJ, Hon. Sunkuli, and all the other colleagues to accept to get the ticket to heaven by not just speaking about corruption but acting against it. The sugar cartels rode on state capture in the last regime. When we talk about those three choices, I would probably add a fourth option. It is time we had a conversation on establishing an anti-state capture commission so that this country can truly interact with what has bedeviled the fabric of our nation in the economic management of our national resources. It is sad that as political leaders, we shout from the rooftops loudly about the fight against corruption, but when it comes to acting on it, we are the first to use politics to defend the corrupt. We are the first to use state capture to advance our selfish business interests at the expense of the greater public good. It is time we had that conversation as a country. We probably never got it right in the fight against corruption because we tend to politicise it. I want to repeat that those three choices are not for good, law-abiding, and hardworking Kenyans but rather for the corrupt who believe they can use public offices as State officers to enrich themselves at the expense of those who put them there. I invite Hon. TJ to have that conversation on state capture and maybe establish an anti-state capture commission."
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