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    "id": 1524013,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. First of all, I thank the very honored son of this country, Mr. Patrick Ochieng Odindo, for presenting this Petition on the ethics and anti-corruption graft investigation on the West Kano Irrigation Scheme and their failure to act to expectations. I also thank the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries under the leadership of Hon. Senator David Wakoli for ably presenting this report before the Senate. The complaint that Mr. Odindo has presented before the Senate is that 59 farmers groups have suffered tremendous losses of funds that were meant to help them under the West Kano Irrigation Scheme. Between 2009 and 2015, Kshs86 million was allegedly lost, and this was the revolving fund of the West Kano farmers. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir this same gallant son says, between 2015 and 2017, the Scheme Farmers’ Cooperative Society leaders who managed the farm machinery fund could not account for the money that was donated by the Kenya government and the government of Japan. The Rice Sales Fund, which was again a donation to these 59 groups of farmers was lost. The residents of West Kano Irrigation Scheme made these allegations before the Western Region of the Anti-Corruption Commission, but nothing was done. The question that we need to ask ourselves is, what is it that the Anti-Corruption Commission was doing in Western Region all these years? How can it be that the EACC makes a decision to devolve its work to various regions, and the people in those regions, in this particular case, the Western Region, are not happy or satisfied with the work that you are doing? What is it that needs to be done to this Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission for it to wake up to its responsibility? These people are simply saying, “we have done everything we could correctly, but we have been let down by a government body. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Kshs86 million is not small money, especially in the rural areas. This money was misappropriated, but nobody has been arrested. The people have made a report; nothing has been done by the EACC. What are the people supposed to do? They have looked for all other ways to deal with this matter and have landed on this Senate. This Senate in its recommendation, has said, “let us move away from the EACC and let us go to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI).” This is the first 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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