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    "id": 1462628,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "they are getting as a kickback. That is where the problem is. Senate Majority Leader, through you Speaker, we need to have a very honest conversation on how we can deal with this cancer called corruption. It is all around the interests of a sitting governor. If a new governor comes into office and finds a contractor who was recruited by the previous governor, there is fear that they will not approach them to get a kickback. They will divert the money that they get in that financial year to pay another contractor whom they are able to cut a deal with. Let us involve all the stakeholders in this industry. We need to have a conversation with Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), so that they can give us a proposal on how we criminalize this idea of leaving out contractors who are given contracts by the previous governor, but whom the new governor does not intend to pay. It is the same problem Sen. Mutinda is talking about of Sen. Sakaja. It is the same thing in Nyamira. We are unable to complete our county referral hospital because the sitting governor is not willing to pay the contractor because the contractor was recruited by the late Gov. Nyagarama. The same thing with Manga stadium. You see these things in the audit reports year in, year out. The best thing is to amend the law, especially ethics and corruption legislation. We can make it a criminal case If there is a procurement plan and work has been done and certificates issued yet a governor refuses to pay. All we want to confirm is that work was given out and that it was done. There is confirmation from professionals that that service provider should be paid and then we release the money. Worldwide the biggest trading partner is normally the government. The government must demonstrate that when you are doing business with it, you are dealing with a business partner that has integrity; we will be able to pay for services and work rendered. How can we allow people who are in business to have their homes auctioned?"
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