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    "id": 1522123,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1522123/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13165,
        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "That is a story of many Government interventions and programmes that, up to date, this country continues to suffer, be it the county government, national Government, private entities, or even workers on our farms. The fellow you employ to take care of your chicken back in Murang’a, you know they do not appreciate that if the chicken are laying 45 trays of eggs per week and they reduce it to 40, that is a form of corruption. In Kenya, it is considered being street smart. Yet, as Sen. Okiya Omtatah said, and I agree with him, perhaps we should first ban the word corruption. That is where the problem begins. It should be called what it is. It should be referred to as theft. The EACC should be something like the Ethics and Anti- Theft Commission. This thing called corruption is already a problem because many people think it is a sanitised word. Being accused of corruption is not as bad as being accused of theft, and many people do not distinguish between the two. Therefore, maybe we should have that conversation. However, the problem is deeper than the name. It is not just about what it is referred to. It is about our values and what it is that we can train in our society, beginning with the young children, so that they are, perhaps, a better society than we are. Since the generation ahead of me, my generation is immediately behind, and those that are coming after, if we do not take care of it, then we will not have a country to write home about. All these countries that we read about that existed in the world have been destroyed on this account. In fact, the biggest threat that any society or nation faces, I dare say, is not from terrorists or internal implosion based on lack of opportunities and resources but corruption. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is my hope that upon consideration of each of these 88 Clauses as amended, we shall make significant strides towards achieving this fight that every Kenyan wishes that we did not have. Unfortunately, many that we know, starting with the leadership to the ordinary citizens---"
}