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    "id": 221679,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Odoyo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Peter Ochieng Odoyo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am much obliged with your ruling. 1414 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES May 16, 2007 Thank you for continuing to protect me from what we may call \"undrinkable water\" that is being supplied to poor Kenyans. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the issue of the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) where Kshs19 million was stolen, it was a clear case of what we may call \"network theft\". This is a clear case that the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) up to today has been unable to dismantle; the corruption network. The corruption network cuts across many Ministries; they are in the Treasury, they are in line Ministries and in parastatals. These networks, up to and until the Minister is able to dismantle them, indeed, corruption will continue unabated. A case in point was the Kshs19 million fraud within the TSC and, up to today, the Minister for Finance keeps on saying: \"I have requested the Attorney-General to take action\". That seems to be the corner from which the Treasury keeps on trying to outbox us, like the way Mohammed Ali outboxed George Foreman in the jungle battle in Zaire. But let me assure the Treasury that, indeed, the Minister in that corner is going to be plummeted down, to be knocked out, because he cannot forever hide under the cliche that he has written to the Attorney-General to take action. That is not adequate. Indeed, in this particular Government, only three people have got executive powers: His Excellency the President, the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Local Government. These people have Executive authority as granted by powers from this House. I still do not know why the Minister is not able to take executive action. Indeed, he has such bodies as the Commissioner for Value Added Tax (VAT) and the Commissioner for Domestic Taxes; all these people have various kinds of power which the Minister is able to use adequately to make sure that the public is not losing funds. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, many of the people who have lost funds---"
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