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    "id": 1443160,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Joe Nyutu",
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    "content": ". This is something that we need to talk about. Many things have been happening in our society. I have a background in education. There are things that we have done in this country that should not be done. Some public institutions of learning have somewhat been privatised. Allow me to mention one or two. We have a school called Hospital Hill Primary School. This is a public school, but it has been privatised. We also have Nairobi Primary School and Tigoni Primary School in Kiambu. These are public schools, but the middle class and well-to-do people have taken and introduced some rules and arrangements through the Parents Teachers Association (PTA). By privatising these schools, it is very hard for ordinary mortals to get admittance to those schools for their children. All this time our people have been watching. They are unable to take their children to Nairobi Primary School because there are illegal charges, which have been building up. Corruption is also something that has led people to build up anger and dissatisfaction against the Government and leadership. Recently, there was a young man and I know this is the subject of a court case. However, I am not going to discuss the merits or demerits of the same. Sadly, a young man allegedly could not raise a bribe that a police officer was asking for. Consequently, the young man ended up beating up that police officer. I do not want to stand here and say that, that was right. However, you can imagine the frustration of a young man whom a police was demanding an amount of money that he could not afford. Some police stations have even up-scaled corruption. I want to cite Kasarani police station. This is a police station where you will find tens of police officers along the road. What do they do? They do not want to take their usual Kshs50, 10 or 100. They will just order you to drive your vehicle into the police station, where they will demand for a big amount of money as a bribe before you are released. We must call this out. We are where we are because those who cannot afford these amounts of money are always at a disadvantage. What does our Judiciary do in helping to resolve these matters of corruption? The processes are lengthy. Madam Temporary Speaker, somebody who has been accused of corruption will take ages before their cases are heard and determined. Of course, they are going to buy their way. They are going to compromise even the investigations because the kind of bail they get is very friendly. Somebody stealing Kshs100 million is given a bail term of about Kshs2 million. People are more than happy to steal, pay bail and buy whoever they want. This is what has caused frustration to our people, leading to the events of the last two weeks. Our laws are also weak. On Tuesday, we hosted the Cabinet Secretary for Health in the Committee on Health, where I am a Member. We wanted to know what the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) is doing to see to it that there are no fraudulent claims and what they do to recover the lost funds. We were very frustrated that the law does not allow NHIF, for example, even after they have discovered that a claim was fraudulent, to take such a fraudster to court. They leave it to investigative agencies to look at it and take this matter to court. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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