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    "id": 1355334,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugenya, MDG",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Ochieng’",
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        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
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    "content": "cry that we cannot afford this and that. We must shape up. We must lead the way. It cannot just go anywhere. I support this Bill completely and request those who are concerned to do their best. You cannot tell me that it started from nowhere. The culture of police officer picking up Ksh50 from motorists has been in existence for a long time. Why does someone want to be appointed chairman of a department in Government? It is not because he thinks there is an allowance. He believes that being a chairman of a commission, committee or board gives them room to access Government tenders. That is why they want to be appointed. Very few guys want to serve. This Bill is about public service with honour, dignity and integrity. We must agree as a people that our problems are ours and of our own doing. We have done this for the last 60 years. It has to change. If you want to serve, serve with dignity. Do not try to make money in your service and hope that someone else will not do it. Therefore, I request those concerned - the EACC, our courts, the police system and even lawyers like myself - to be alert when this law passes. I have seen a matter that has been brought before this House and then fellow advocates in this Parliament go to court on the same matter the next day. It does not help us. We cannot work that way. We cannot hope to build a country where anything goes. I ask the President, wherever he is today, to also talk to his Cabinet Secretaries, Principal Secretaries and all his appointees once this law is passed. He must tell them that there is a new law in town. Ukishikwa shauri yako! With those remarks, I support."
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