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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Okiya Omtatah",
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    "content": "public records. The EACC has done nothing about that. Instead, they are clamoring for more powers. The Parliament has reviewed the report on the Conflict of Interest Bill. It is good. We are going to pass this Bill and give them those powers. However, are they going to do anything with it? In fact, the EACC has become a laughing stock in some of the counties to a point whereby county officials will tell you to go to the EACC and they will sort them out when they come. They have become a laughable entity that has not even cracked most of the issues that come up. Personally, I have taken so many cases to the EACC, but they just evaporate. They delay and then evaporate. I am seeing the same--- The Conflict of Interest Bill might just be another opportunity for rent-seekers to run wild in this country, wearing badges of the EACC. It is my plea that we take a sober look at the EACC and strip it of the powers that allows it to be the forum where theft by servants is not criminalized, but sanitized by being mischaracterized as corruption. The word “corruption” does not carry the same sting that the word “theft” carries even in the English Language. Let alone the fact that in our mother tongue, we do not have the word for corruption. In Swahili, we have a word called “ ufisadi ”. The other day, I saw one of the leaders in Tanzania say that it was invented by Kenyans. We have Swahili scholars like Sen. Wakoli here who can assist us understand whether “ufisadi” is sheng or a proper Swahili word. The Tanzanians say that it came from Kenya. I would request that I be informed briefly before I continue contributing."
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