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    "id": 1341592,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "just a day, before the elections. If the Court of Appeal had adequate judges, they would deal with appellate matters from the High Court and other courts in time. Therefore, that amendment will seek to increase the number of judges in the Court of Appeal. The Chair of the Departmental Committee on Transport and Infrastructure, Hon. GK, will bear witness to the Kenya Roads Board Act that the Kenya Roads Board has had a current membership of thirteen. It is actually among the largest boards in the country. They want to align with the Mwongozo Policy to have nine members instead of the current thirteen. The last is the Bribery Act of 2016. Here, we seek to include private and public entities in the scope of applying the Bribery Act. Hon. Speaker, Members and Kenyans will agree that bribery or corruption is not matters just touching on public offices and officers. The key drivers of corruption, even in public entities, are private entities seeking opportunities to do business with the Government. The laws, as they were, only targeted public entities and excluded private entities. We now want to bring to the purview of the Bribery Act the private entities so that we can make the fight against corruption possible and easy for the EACC and other investigative agencies to deal lawfully with those engaging in bribery, whether in the private or public sector. The Bill, as had been published, had other various amendments. However, you recall that in the Communication made by the Speaker last week, we dropped several of those provisions that we shall therefore not be considering. Those are just some of the matters in line with the Speaker’s Communication last week. With those many remarks, I beg to move and request Hon. Kangogo Bowen to second."
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