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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murgor",
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    "content": "take advantage of them. I have seen this happening in Pokot society. A high percentage of this society is illiterate and many people take advantage of them. Right now, there many goldminers in West Pokot. It is sad that the county government is taking advantage of them instead of helping them. Therefore, this case of West Kano in Kisumu County is not isolated, but it is all over the country. Just like our colleague Sen. Cherarkey said, we do not know who should arrest people involved in corruption cases. Farmers in the Kano plains lost a lot of money and probably their children dropped out of schools. It is a pity that even they have lost their beloved ones because they could not afford not take them to hospitals for treatment. They lost a lot because of mismanagement of their society by people who were in charge. This is also a lesson to other farmers’ groups elsewhere. There should be a lot of scrutiny and carefulness when it comes to electing people to be put in charge farmers’ societies. This is because people entrusted with the management of these societies end up looting them These days many corrupt individuals carry money in bags in their vehicles. They do so because they do not want to arrested by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) officers. Sometimes they bribe them and they look the other side. They do not arrest these culprits who are stealing from farmers. By looking the other side, they give a clean slate to a corrupt person. Therefore, corruption will be with us for a long time. We need to give EACC teeth because it is no longer effective. It is no longer sensitive to corruption. It has become compromised and longer serving us. We need to come with new system to fight corruption in this country. These days, people buy buildings and farms with proceeds of corruption. They no longer see stolen property or money, but hard earned wealth and they are proud of it. In this process of stealing money and machines, they discourage donors to donate for other projects in future in that place or elsewhere in Kenya. They will be disappointed and they will probably walk away from our country. That puts us into a lot of shame. This is because when such an investment is done, donors file reports. They are proud that they did something to alleviate the poverty situation. However, they are discourage when funds are looted by the same people who are supposed to be taking care of it. So, we are chasing donors away by this practice. As the Kano Plain farmers and the general public will apportion blame on leaders like us and even the Government that it is not taking care of them. Look, a few people have stolen our things and they are just walking free and blame police, blame everybody because somebody just did wrong things to them. We all get a portion of the blame because of a few individuals. A few officers who were supposed to be helping correct situations. That is why we have shortages of food. We have limited economic activities in this country because people entrusted with public funds end up misappropriating the same. Many corporations and irrigation systems have collapsed because of corruption. As I said, we should get another system that will be effective in fighting corruption in this country. I support."
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