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    "id": 1339363,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Chairman, let me begin by saying this provision is good. I hear from many Members that it sits in the wrong Bill. Many of these provisions will find their way into the Conflict of Interest Bill that is before this House. Therefore, I support the Chairman in deleting it from this Bill because of the substantive nature of the proposals. However, that does not mean it is a bad amendment. We must empower EACC to check the integrity of public officers before they assume office. That should not be taken for granted. EACC is not taking over the work of the Public Service Commission. They are not seeking to recruit. EACC is simply working in line with the Leadership and Integrity Act and Ethics and Anti-Corruption Act to check on corruption matters. As a country, it does not serve us any good to hire and recruit into our Public Service people who are already known to be corrupt. We have been accused, in the past, that Parliament - let me not say the National Assembly - or political leadership becomes a laundromat for the corrupt. If you work in the Executive and amass enough public resources, you get into political leadership to clean yourself up. That is why institutions that fight corruption must have teeth to bite. You do not bite when people are corrupt. You prevent people from looting public resources. How many are taking up public offices today, having looted our county governments dry? Without casting any aspersions on anybody, some people have risen from very junior officers in our county governments after the advent…."
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