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    "speaker_name": "[Mr. Omingo]",
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        "legal_name": "James Omingo Magara",
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    "content": "supported this Motion. As our children suffer in poverty, as we continue repaying loans borrowed, courtesy of wastage, and try to revive our economy, it is also critical that we look back into history and correct ills. I want to thank the Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs who has just said that the Government will use a tooth comb to go through the recommendations of the PAC and implement them. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as we talk today people who were black-listed in relation to some contracts have been given other jobs which they are doing. The same people who were in the Government are still there. We all appreciate the fact that there was personal interest in some of this matters. It becomes a mirage fight against corruption because those corrupt people fight back. We find that those who have been in power before, when they realise that they are about to be exposed, they either move pretty fast to make peace with the Government or try to sabotage any move made to expose them. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for the PAC to make sense, I submit that each one of us thinks beyond personal interest. Each one of us should think about the children behind us. When moving this Motion, I stated that put crudely, graft money, particularly that meant for hospitals, is as bad as blood money. I have more reason to this and I will repeat it anywhere, that we need to expose ourselves and do a lot of soul searching. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, finally, as we try to expose what is being done in darkness, Parliament should also become of age and be able to be scrutinised by the public. We should open up parliamentary practice and our Committee proceedings. We should have a deterrent measure of exposing the rot in the system and all those who are perpetrating the ills to the extent that this affects the population out there. The sooner we move quickly to have an oversight body to oversee our activities, the better. As we put this issue to close, we require some bit of reconciliation here. We need to reconcile our minds and our thoughts in the interest of our children. December 5, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 4151 The issue of debt is actually agonising. About Kshs750 billion is the current debt portfolio. We are spending about Kshs112 billion to pay debts, most of which are for many years ago. We must rise to the occasion if our children ought to respect us. We must expose the thieves, so that their children can know that their fathers are actually riding in stolen Mercedes Benzes. We must expose them if we are supposed to be mature enough. I believe that we are given a responsibility to expose these people to the members of the public. Otherwise, history will judge us very harshly and our children will wonder whether they had parents who looted the money which they were supposed to be given as we exit from this particular scene. With those few remarks, I beg to move."
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