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    "id": 1513374,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kibwezi West, MCCP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mwengi Mutuse",
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    "content": "moment those two foundational issues were resolved, it was then easy to go clause by clause, and that is where we developed the consensus easily. The third issue, obviously, was to what standards public officials, State officers and public officers, should be held in terms of the fight against corruption, bearing in mind that conflict of interest is a major cause of corruption. Our view was that we need to have a very high standard which needs to be practical, not utopic but realistic. We also do not need to dilute. We need to safeguard against diluting the war on corruption by making provisions that make it very easy for people to go away with economic crimes. We also agreed on the standard, and that is why we have come up with a mediated law that is realistic. A mediated Conflict of Interest Bill that will propel this country to the next level and make it impossible for public and State officers to do business with the Government in a manner that compromises their holding of office. For that reason, I beg to second. I request that we pass the mediated version so that it may go to the Senate, and that it may eventually become law. Remember, yesterday, we gave the EACC a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Therefore, it is also important that we empower them legislatively, to ensure that the Ksh2 billion that we keep talking about that is lost every day, the loopholes are sealed. Many of the loopholes are as a result of conflict of interest in terms of people who sit in offices and do things for themselves and not for the country. I second and request that we pass the Conflict of Interest Bill as mediated by the Committee."
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