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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Crystal Asige",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity to contribute to this Bill. I am not sure if a Bill will really solve the deeply entrenched problem of corruption in our country. I would have hoped that would something that would be left to our population to look into our morals and values as people and as a society. The need for bringing a Bill to try and curb corruption, conflict of interest and all the other issues that ensue, for me, may not really go into solving the true problem that Kenya faces as a country. I will highlight a few data sets from the EACC national survey. This is just so that Kenyans can understand what types of issue that we are really dealing with. The study surveyed about 5,100 households across the country who are above 18 years of age. It says that 53.7 per cent considered that corruption is high in the country. Ministries most prone to corruption; the Ministry of Interior and National Administration was the first, 47.1 per cent. The Ministry of Health, 13.2 per cent. The ministry of Roads and Transport is at 5.8 per cent. Government departments and agencies most prone is the next one I will highlight. The police, 60.6 per cent, that is of national share of bribes. Next is Immigration at 4.4 per cent. Registrar of persons 4.0 per cent. There is the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) and then the Teachers Service Commission (TSC). Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the county services most prone to bribery according to this report are the county health services at 39.1 percent, county transport at 11.9 percent, trade development at 10 percent, county commissioners’ offices and next are county public service boards. I will next highlight the counties that are most prone to bribery according to this report - Nyamira is the first one. Next is Baringo, Siaya, Bungoma, Turkana and it goes on and on. The average size of bribe went from Kshs6,865 in 2022 to about Kshs11,625 in 2023, almost double in a year. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, jobseekers were at the top, giving about Kshs160,260 as a bribe to look for jobs. People who are looking for passports pay about Kshs4,000 and people seeking police abstracts pay about Kshs20,300. People pay to obtain a tender about Kshs17,000 and solving land conflicts an average of Kshs12,673. I will move to another piece of data that was interesting to me. The top five forms of corruption nationally. Bribery is at 41.0 percent is what we are talking about. I have concluded that we need to find a long-lasting and sustainable solution to corruption. We talk about a Bill and yet, we all know that the huge problem in our country and several other jurisdictions is implementation of legislation. Legislation can be good, well meaning and the spirit of different provisions and clauses to curb particular issues can be very good and written very well. However, the implementation part is always the problem. Therefore, if we see such high and exorbitant data sets with regard to corruption and bribery in the country, how can we say that this piece of legislation will solve our problem holistically?"
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