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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "The children we are bringing up are people who just do whatever you can to get rich as early as possible and retire by the time you are 40 years old and travel the world. How you do it, nobody cares because that is what we have taught them. The EACC needs to be serious. These regional offices like the western region; they should not just sit there and create failure like the one they have in this particular incidence. You know, bringing a shame to a whole institution because of your failure to act, they should be proactive. In addition, I am not talking about even just that region alone. Across all these regional offices, what does it take just to visit schools? How much effort is it within the town you are living in to just spend 30 minutes visiting shules and telling people that we need to do something more? Kenyans need to grow a generation of people who will reject corruption, who will want to earn an honest living. However, they will not do it. They will sit in their offices, farmers will bring in their complaints and instead of working to solve these problems, they will collude with those people who now have in possession their money and not help the cause for which they were employed to do. This Senate calls out the EACC, and I have said it before and I will say it again, even in the Senate Public Accounts Committee. We call governors and they come before the Senate County Public Accounts Committee. Then, you find clear evidence of misappropriation of funds. The EACC office is seated there. They are there taking notes and, of course, allowances for attending Senate committees. However, after that, you hear nothing. No action has been taken. Nothing has been done. Therefore, people, they have started to normalize corruption. EACC needs to pull up its socks. Pulling up its socks is not just arrest. You need to be proactive. You need to, like when farmers complain like this, what was wrong with that officer? Why could he not move from his western region office to go and sit with the farmers, call a meeting, hear them out? Why are people in Government offices yet they do not want to talk to people? They become big. They roll up their windows, up their vehicles, tinted windows. They get security. They do not talk to them. They do not even walk. It is terrible. These are Government officers. They are not even elected, so they cannot be worried that maybe people will stop you and ask you this and that. You are an officer of ethics and anti-corruption. You are a County Commissioner or you are a Deputy County Commissioner (DCC). Why this thing of avoiding people and big man syndrome? Why can people not take these positions and actually serve people? I fully support the submissions by this Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries and we pray that the EACC is sitting where they are sitting. They listen to us and do something more. I again congratulate Mr. Patrick Odindo for taking up this matter. May these recommendations be carried out as fast as possible. We want the DCI now to focus on who stole the money. The evidence is still there. They go and catch these people. This will put a rest to the problems that the West Kano Irrigation Scheme has been experiencing for so many years. With those many remarks, I beg to support the report of the Committee. Thank you."
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