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    "speaker_name": "Mr. G.G. Kariuki",
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        "legal_name": "Godfrey Gitahi Kariuki",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like the hon. Members, who are laughing, to listen to the voice of the Mover of this Motion! First of all, it is generally agreed that the intentions are good. If you have good intentions and you block the same intentions, I do not know how to describe you! I cannot find words to describe such a person. This is because the Minister knows very well that, even in the meeting that was held at the Bomas of Kenya yesterday, a solution to the fight against corruption was not found because all the institutions which fight the vice have more or less failed. It will not take us another May 31, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1047 six months before the Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs brings some amendments to the Act which was passed by this honourable House two years ago. Hon. Members should clear their names of the allegations by Kenyans that almost everybody in this country is corrupt. Members of the public expect this Parliament to deal decisively with corruption. However, all the laws that we have passed are inadequate. First of all, let us agree that corruption started in the past two Governments. The third Government also got itself in the same quagmire. That is why I admit and submit to this House that the systems of corruption are kleptomania; they are organised by the people who are corrupt. Therefore, this country is known everywhere and we should not say that we are not corrupt. I want this Parliament to exonerate itself from the accusations that everybody is corrupt."
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