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"content": "Many people say that the tree of freedom is watered by blood. However, we do not have to take it literally that people have to die and go to hospitals, so that some of the issues that they are raising are heard. So, I wish a quick recovery for those in the hospital. As a House, we have heard your voices. I have heard many people, including some of my colleagues here, saying that, you know, when we were Gen Zs, this is what we used to do. However, it is fair to set records straight that Gen Z is a generation. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you have never been a Gen Z and you shall never be. You are not in that particular bracket of a generation. You must have been born between certain times for you to be a Gen Z. It is the Gen Zs and the people of Kenya who have raised very pertinent issues that we must listen to. One of the issues that has come out very clearly in the last weeks in the conversation that we have in the country is corruption. When we speak about corruption, it must prick our conscience. I am deeply disappointed with the body that is in charge of corruption, the EACC. It is now throwing words to this honorable House. In my opinion, the weakest link in our fight against corruption is the EACC. If there is a body, that I would call vestigial for just being there, but of no known utility, it will be the EACC. This House has taken 146 files to the EACC, and nothing has been done by it that they can come and show us as a report. If EACC wants to throw barbs at this House, we have an impeccable record. This House has successively impeached five governors. Can the (EACC) show us one elected leader that they have ever prosecuted and is serving jail? Can we be shown, just one person; not two people? At least this House has a record, we have impeached, but some have been returned by the courts. It is okay, but we have a record that we prosecuted here in this House. The files that the County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC) has given the EACC are open and shut. You are not supposed to be a rocket scientist to act on some of the issues. I want to give one demonstration with tremendous respect to the Senator for Nyamira, Senior Counsel, Sen. Omogeni. Last week the Governor for Nyamira appeared before us and the Members of the County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC) are here and can attest to it. In one of the expenditures that had been raised, the Governor for Nyamira County paid himself Kshs6 million and he said that it was salary in arrears. When he was caught and this matter was brought to the Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission (EACC), what did the EACC do? Did they prosecute him? No. Did they ask him anything? No. They just told him, we have found you stealing, please return our money, we are very sorry and do not do that again. Is that the kind of body that we are looking for? Is that the kind of body that can come and try to lecture this kind of a House? We, the people of Nyandarua, have written to the EACC regarding a matter to do with the insurance of the members of staff of the Nyandarua County Government. The County Executive sat at 9.00 a.m. and approved that a contract be entered into with a certain insurance firm and on the same day, that contract was entered into. Now, the EACC wants to tell us that they would require five years to look into a crime that was committed in three hours. If it is easy to commit a crime in three hours, why does the EACC require five years, nine years or whatever years to investigate it? If The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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