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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kisang",
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        "legal_name": "William Kipkemoi Kisang",
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    "content": "There is a lot of corruption. If we are willing- it must start from the top to bottom, we should ensure that there are no leakages. If you as the father of the house, Senator or Governor, you see that there are things that you are doing that are not right, basically, it will go down stream. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we need to check these things and ensure there is governance and not giving unrealistic own source revenue where they create pending bills. This is one of the reasons why we are suffering at the counties. A county will say they will raise Kshs1 billion a billion and they raise Kshs3 million yet they will have budgeted for the Kshs1 billion. What happens to Kshs700 million works that have been committed? Therefore, it is important that we have a conversation as a country so that we come out of this mess that we are in. In countries like Singapore and Malaysia, corruption is not tolerated. Therefore, we need to be serious. Perhaps, we need to be dictators. I agree that in a country like China, if you are found to be corrupt, they say they will hang you. Perhaps, we need to do that for a year or two, so that we get back to our discipline. The reason why we were commenting the other time about road carnage is also because of the indiscipline. Instead of people going to driving schools properly and getting a license, we like shortcuts. You buy driving licenses or go and train on a bodaboda in a field within 30 minutes, then you are carrying five passengers, how will we grow if we are not adhering to some basic values as a country? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I support this Report. I believe by the end of April, the National Treasury will give us the policies and measures on how they will bring down the remuneration from 70 per cent to 55 per cent; the internationally acceptable percentage. Otherwise, technically we are in the red. Thank you. I support."
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