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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "will I put, including some proxies that will supply or do a certain work for the Government? They are sitting at the seats of accountability; they cannot hold themselves to account. Nobody else can hold them to account because the moment they have put several budgetary allocations to projects that they want to do with serious and dubious companies, then when it comes to this Parliament, they sanitise themselves. Madam Temporary Speaker, almost 70 per cent of our taxes never go to do any job. Inflation in the procurement processes in this country is an endemic that is becoming difficult to address. We have put in the DNA and the psyche of Kenyans that you do not need to be an entrepreneur in this country. You do not need to think about an enterprising economy. The simplest way to get and amass wealth, whether primitively or in a pseudo manner is simply to join the Government. Whether you join the Government as a legislator, as a subordinate judiciary, or in the executive, you can be rest assured that you will be wealthier than any entrepreneur who has spent 20 years doing business in this country. This is a menace that young people and serious patriots in this country must rise to look at the eye of what the mediated version of this Bill is proposing so that we can deal with this menace, once and for all. It is not going to be easy. From 1970 to date, Duncan Ndegwa in the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) sat to rethink about the public service structure of this country. They endorsed this kind of commission report. The resultant behaviour of public servants harvesting from the public coffers to date is not an easy thing to fight. Even as we support this report and agree as a House with our partners in the National Assembly to make this Bill come to life, we have a serious war to wage against enterprising within Government. It is a big problem. It is so big that once it becomes law and we do not give it some teeth, it will never be easy to run the Government. It will end up with abuse of office. People only abuse office because they have power to procure the services of entities that are supposed to enforce laws that are in this country. There is a debate right now on what is going on in the Judiciary. In 2007 after the crisis that we had in this country, people rethought and invested in our Constitution. Some of the patriots in this country, including Hon. Raila Amolo Odinga at that time fought so hard for a Judiciary Ombudsman so that as we thought about independent commissions in this country. We could also have an ombudsman for the independent Judiciary, but people did not want it. Today, I dare say confidently that one of the most procured institutions for enforcing our laws in this country is the Judiciary. How do you explain this? A matter of urgency is put before a court of law in this country for a determination within two or three days like what happened in the National Assembly. A determination was needed to be made on who are the majority leaders in the House. Then the judgment came two years later. How do you explain that if it is not the procurement of the services of judges in this country? Who oversights our judges? The Parliament can be overseen by the Judiciary. The Executive can be overseen by Parliament. Who oversights our judges? 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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