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"speaker_name": "Sen. Maanzo",
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"content": "means, can make it to the army or to all those agencies including the prisons fairly and without paying a bribe through agents who are conflicted? It has become common practise that every Kenyan knows before you are conflicted there must be corruption. Sometimes they use big names that, for example, unless your name comes from State House, an MP, Senator or Governor, you cannot be recruited in the army. Therefore, what is the use of holding a recruitment exercise if all that is a wastage of people’s time and you will finally just recruit as you please? These are some of the things this law wants to check, to provide equity in the country and to make sure that each young person in this country, whether rich or poor, has an equal opportunity as the other. How do we kill this corruption? It is high time we amended the Constitution to bring back the death sentence. For instance, in a jurisdiction like China, if you are found participating in corruption, you are actually causing death of other people and, therefore, you should also be sentenced to death. It will create sufficient fear. If you are stealing from your own country, if you are stealing from the others, if you are disadvantaging others so that they cannot live, then why should you live? It is high time when considering the amendment of the Constitution, we bring back the death sentence and especially in matters related to corruption. Consequently, whoever is convicted and found to have stolen resources from the nation, then we must have a proper recovery mechanism. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, just like the verse in the Proverb says that whoever works hard then leaves wealth for their generation, but whoever steals then loses everything, so that people will stop the practise of shortcuts and stealing. There are people who have worked hard, had savings, paid taxes and when the taxes are put together, they are just stolen by a few individuals from certain regions of the country and the rest of the country continues to be poor. We really want to make sure that this law goes through and the punishments given under Section 43 of the miscellaneous provisions, you find that a person who contravenes any provisions of this Act, for which no penalty is provided, shall upon conviction be liable to - if the person is a natural person, a fine not exceeding Kshs4 million or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding 10 years or to both. It goes on to state that if the person is a body corporate like a Ministry or State corporation, a fine not exceeding Kshs10 million in addition to the penalty under subsection one, the person shall be liable to a further mandatory fine, if as a result of the conflict that has constituted the offence, the person receives qualifiable benefit or any other person suffered a quantifiable lose, I believe that the most important thing is to recover back what this particular person has stolen. That has not come out fundamentally in this law, although we have laws dealing with recovery and all those things. They have also been choked by corrupt and conflicted practises. In the same breath, Kenyans have found it very difficult to get themselves out of this. We continue to lose as a country. The only way we are going to do affordable housing is to first kill corruption in the country."
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