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    "id": 1355331,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugenya, MDG",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Ochieng’",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
        "slug": "david-ouma-ochieng"
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    "content": "If we agree that this country has to grow, we must accept that all of us will play by the same rules. We cannot expect procurement officers in Government offices to comply and we do not comply. All of us must accept that this is a cancer that has messed up our country. We will be passing the Supplementary Budget today. I can tell you for sure that there are people who already know what is in it for whom in the Supplementary Budget that we will be passing during the Committee of the whole House this afternoon. How do we build a country that way? You pass a Budget of Ksh3 trillion and people have already decided “ yangu ni hii,yake ni ile ” in that budget. It cannot work. I do not care what Members are saying. I do not care whether you are making noise or not. We have to shape up as a people. We cannot have a situation where we pass Bills but we do not want to follow them once they become laws. This country is going down because politicians are greedy. They want to have everything. I am also included in that definition. We will not go anywhere if we do not stop greed and primitive accumulation. Hon. Temporary Speaker, we have been complaining about our Principal Secretaries and Cabinet Secretaries for the last 11 months. We are seeing Cabinet Secretaries whom we knew what they used to earn but are now vomiting on our shoes in less than one year. We can see it clearly. All of us must act within the law. We cannot have governors having apartments all over town and yet, we know they did not have even a bicycle before they became governors. Members of Parliament, we cannot hope to exempt ourselves from this law. This law should pass. I have said several times that I believe the EACC should start with us in Parliament, if we are to fight corruption in this country. The EACC should start here. Let it start here so that we deal with ourselves. Those of us who ask Cabinet Secretaries for money when they appear before us must be dealt with. We cannot have a country where we think that we can just do things like this because we are Members of Parliament. I disagree."
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