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    "id": 283327,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kajwang",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for Immigration and Registration of Persons",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Gerald Otieno Kajwang",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for protecting me. I am entitled to my opinion, sister. Allow me to give my opinion with a lot of passion. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Anti-Corruption Authority must itself have another body to check corruption. This is because the Anti-Corruption Authority cannot be a law unto itself. There are people who use the Anti-Corruption Authority - a big name, constitutional name and a good office – for purposes of harassment and bribe-taking. I hope that this gentleman and ladies that we are passing this evening will not use this good office, constitutional office and illustrious office to run around saying: “We have heard this about you. Can you talk?” We will not use the Anti-Corruption Authority to settle political scores. Sometimes I laugh when I hear that the Anti-Corruption Authority is looking for a Minister because a department in that Ministry carried out some project, which supposedly is incomplete and so, the Minister must be corrupt. Sometimes we need to teach the Anti-Corruption Authority what corruption is. This country will not have an institution that does not even know what its job really is. In fact, if I were the Director of Anti-Corruption Authority, I would first satisfy myself - and I saw that there was a professor of Law as a Director – that actually the person whose name I am publishing and threatening with arrest, has actually committed the crime. Why do I rush to say; “there will be thunderbolt and high voltage cases?” I hope those are not the oratory skills that we were referring to. They are not necessary. In fact, in my view, anti- corruption should be taught in schools, so that our children, from Standard One to Standard Seven, know that this thing is bad for the country. In fact, we will reduce it that way. Threatening people with arrests over nothing, eventually when they are tried; they will not even reach the trial. I have said many things which were burning in my heart because this was my opportunity to say them. However, I support the names. Thank you and God bless you."
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