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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wakili Sigei",
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    "content": "petitions. These petitions cover areas where we say that we do not want to continues seeing governors, MPs and MCAs emblazoning their names on public resources utilized to develop certain infrastructure in our places. Secondly, I appreciate the Committee that dealt with this issue especially on the recommendations and timelines they gave requiring the EACC to do certain actions within 30 days. It is public notoriety that almost all elected governors, MPs and MCAs in most projects, including public toilets and soak pit latrines, publish their names saying that those projects were done by so-and-so and at a certain date without necessarily making reference to the fact that those are public resources. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, such publication is abuse of office. It goes beyond unethical conduct. It borders on abuse of office and is sufficient grounds for someone to be brought to book and charged for abuse of office. To have a Kenyan like Laban Omusundi to prick our conscience and ask us to make certain recommendations and to think through the actions we do is something that not majority of us would do. The Committees should invite this House to have a conversation around this and to also invite the EACC to act in order to remind us that these violations of the law and the guidelines we have are not only costly to the public, but they are potentially going to encourage unnecessary competition because in the process of having seen someone politically made famous by the use of public resources, they will want to do it too. My colleagues have made reference here of certain motor vehicles, which are indicated on or have a portrait of the person who is seen as the patron, on the rear window of the car, whether it is a Member of Parliament who has funded or facilitated the acquisition of such a school bus or an institution bus using National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) or public resources. One would be forced to equally do the same. I, therefore, would like to associate myself with the recommendation that, if you really would want to have your name there, then use your own resources and money, in your individual foundations or private life. Use the resources that belong to you and publish your name there. Let public resources be used for public resources. If you were to look at the amount of these portraits of the billboards that are payable for one to display, that amount is sufficient to be utilised to do projects, which would benefit the public. I, therefore, appreciate their work and the recommendation of the Committee. As Sen. Cherarkey has said, we have indeed invited the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission to give us an itemised status of the cases or reports which various committees of this House have made recommendations for their action and in due course, we shall be able to table that particular report. I thank you."
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