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    "id": 15450,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/15450/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to start by congratulating hon. Dalmas Otieno, the Minister of State for Public Service. Every time I listen to hon. Dalmas Otieno, I cannot avoid getting impressed. I am happy that hon. Otieno still acts with the passion he had when we were at the Bomas of Kenya, where we fought for the second phase of the new Constitution and eventually got it. I say so because this is the first attempt by the Government to try and bring civil servants and, indeed, the entire public service, in line with the letter and spirit of the new Constitution. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, having said so, I think hon. Otieno is not a proud man. He can still stomach a little bit of criticism from us in the sense that he is aware that in the year 2009, there was a Government Task Force Report, which deliberated at length on the issue of a Government School. The concept that was mooted was to give the school strategic positioning, so that it would be a school which would be like a think-tank, and that would give young graduates entering the Civil Service an opportunity to know Government, learn ethics, hate corruption and be proud of working for Kenya. More importantly, the school would operate under a concept which would give an opportunity to a young civil servant to know the difference between “what is mine” and “what is ours”. A young graduate joins the Civil Service knowing that what is his is his salary, but they soon start going to seminars, and in those seminars, a few bad civil servants, who are experienced, start imparting wrong attitudes to this young man to the extent that the innocent young man, who joined the Civil Service knowing that what was his was his salary and whatever other emoluments that may accrue to him, starts thinking that public funds are also his. This is the nightmare we call “corruption”. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is my dream that we will one day pay our civil servants so well that we will boldly go and tell them: When the Ndegwa Commission decided to allow public servants to do business with Government, it planted the seed of corruption in the Public Service. If we will be paying them that well at that"
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