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    "id": 1566530,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1566530/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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    "content": "You have heard the sorry state of mismanagement at KUSCCO Limited. I read in the newspapers that sometimes you can find one director of KUSCCO Limited disappearing with Kshs20 million, money that belongs to poor contributors. The problem with our criminal justice system is that you can steal from the poor and get away with it. In other jurisdictions, if you steal public money and the law catches up with you, you will be consigned to poverty forever. Here, somebody can steal from poor Kenyans who have made contributions to our co-operative societies and the case drags forever. Finally, when a conviction is made, you are told that there is no evidence. When the case stays in court for too long, some witnesses end up disappearing. That is not the way our justice system should be. I am happy that we have also created offences of misconduct or falsifying documents, so that we bring discipline to co-operative societies. I wonder when people complain that they do not want to serve for two terms. For many years, at the Law Society of Kenya (LSK), every new chairman used to be told to walk the story of George Washington. When George Washington became the President of the United States of America (USA), there was no term limit. The 1789 Constitution did not have a term limit. However, George Washington said that there were many Americans who could bring"
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