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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, a standard tarmacked bitumen class road costs Kshs30 million per kilometer. Imagine what you can do with Kshs300 billion every single year! Today in Kenya, more than 8,000 women die in the process of giving birth. Pregnancy is not a disease. So, how is it that 48 years after Independence, we suffer that level of maternal deaths? More than 75 per cent of this population is always at the risk of malaria. Twenty per cent of all children who die under the age of five years die because of malaria. How many mosquito nets can you buy with Kshs300 billion per year? So, the issue of who will serve in the EACC must be the biggest decision we are making after the passage of this Constitution. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Committee has reported to us that in interviewing those candidates, they asked one of them who had served in the now defunct Kenya Anti- Corruption Commission (KACC) what he or she knows about Anglo Leasing. The Committee reports that the candidate said that it is a mystery. They once saw a room full of files but it remains a mystery. The Committee also reports that they asked one of the candidates to explain why Kshs2.4 billion was never collected from a specific taxpayer and the candidate replied; “It wasn’t me. It was not my job. My job was to point out that certain tax should be collected.” When the Committee says that the candidates lacked passion that is what they mean. If you have served as a director in an institution and yet you know nothing about Anglo Leasing, what would suddenly motivate you to know a little bit about Anglo Leasing and take action? If you have been in a position of responsibility and you say that it is not your responsibility to pursue the tax payment, what is it that is going to happen now so that you will have the responsibility to pursue? Mr. Speaker, Sir, there was a lot of debate about the word “passion”. What is it that this Committee was looking for? I want to submit that any great leader must truly have passion for his or her country or the course he or she leads. I want to say that in this"
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