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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Syongo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Zaddock Madiri Syong'oh",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, first of all, I want to take this opportunity to thank Mr. G.G. Kariuki for bringing this Motion. Parliament did its work by setting up several institutions to fight corruption. We have agreed as a nation and society that corruption is a vice which is depriving millions of our people the development momentum that they need to change their lifestyles. Any doctor would confirm that, if a treatment regime is not working, then the doctor is professionally bound to review that treatment regime in order to find out why the treatment he is giving to his patients is not working. Parliament, in its wisdom, set up several institutions and a legal framework. Every single year, it sets aside substantial amounts of money to facilitate those institutions to fight corruption. Since this Government came to power, and since the enhanced capacity and energy to fight corruption was set in motion at the beginning of the term, what is the result of the effort to fight corruption? The Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs is here. She can give us statistics of corruption cases which have been successfully prosecuted. If you compare the amount of resources that Parliament has made available for all the institutions involved in fighting corruption and the number of successful cases prosecuted in respect to corruption, it is a total embarrassment! It is completely dismal! You cannot justify the institutions that are in place, the legal framework and the resources that are made available to fight corruption. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other day, the Leader of the Official Opposition presented, on behalf of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), a special Report on Anglo Leasing related projects. If you look at the kind of money that has been lost and, more sadly, the fact that the corruption process is still on-going, it is a second clear proof that those institutions are not working. The mechanism that Parliament put in place to fight corruption is not working. I agree with the Mover of this Motion that time has now come for Parliament, which set up all those institutions, to carry out a comprehensive review of the institutions, the legal framework, the capacity of those institutions and the processes which they use to investigate, prosecute and fight corruption. Why are they not working? We want to do that with a view to coming up with a 880 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES May 3, 2006 remedial measure to give those institutions more teeth and capacity to do a job that this House mandated them to do. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is going to be a diagnostic exercise. I would like to encourage this House and the Minister to support this Motion. We should work together because we are representing Kenyans who are the final sufferers of corrupt practices. We want to carry out a comprehensive diagnosis and fine-tuning of the mechanisms, so that the amount of money, resources and efforts being put in will bear the necessary output. With those few remarks, I beg to second."
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