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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Wajir North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ibrahim Saney",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I am dissuaded from discussing county governments, but I am rather perplexed at the disdain which statutory organs have for the rule of law. That speaks to KRB and other entities. As my Chairman has put it, the lower ceiling is not really cautionary; it is an abuse of the existing law. There is a hierarchy of laws in Kenya: the Constitution, statutes passed by this Parliament and subsidiary laws. Thereafter, precedents and other things follow. There cannot be any other laws. Regulations are too inferior to statutes. I cannot see how a subsidiary legislation by a non-entity, an amorphous body in Naivasha, can overturn a statutory statement in our laws. My argument is that corruption has gone to a level where impunity against the law is at the centre. We cannot allow this to happen as a Committee. The Cabinet Secretary is duty bound, being a lawyer, to make sure that there is fidelity to the law. This is neither a bargain nor is it negotiable. The biggest monster in the roads sector is KRB. This is an entity whose income is not identifiable to the extent that we cannot really know how much they make. It throws money left, right and centre. It distributes resources yet this House is not seized of that matter. We do not know their budget and how it distributes money to each constituency in this country. It is a multi-billion-shilling entity. It is too rich yet it is taxpayers’ money. The so-called Roads Maintenance Levy Fund (RMLF) must be dealt with once and for all. If it is not brought to the Floor of this House, legislated upon and dealt with, then the Kenya Kwanza Government will never deal with corruption. With those few contributions, I support this Report. Thank you."
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