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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Olweny",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Education",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 122,
        "legal_name": "Patrick Ayiecho Olweny",
        "slug": "patrick-olweny"
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to support this Bill. I have read this Bill and formed the opinion that if it is enacted, it will help us fight corruption in this country much better than we have done, although we enacted a very good Act in 2003. It was good but the people who were given the mandate to fight corruption in this country politicised the fight against corruption. Sometime back, people used to say that we were politicising the fight against corruption, but the fight against corruption has now been properly politicised. We made a mistake here by appointing someone who failed in politics to be in charge of the fight against corruption. He has properly politicised the fight against corruption. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if officers from the anti-corruption agency can go to the home of a politician in the middle of the night and even look under the bed of the mother of the politician in search of that politician, it is doing politics at night in the wrong way. Those officers had gone to arrest the politician in the middle of the night claiming that he was a criminal. All of us know that the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) cheques are not signed by Members of Parliament. I do not believe that a Member of Parliament can take over Kshs100 million from the CDF. That is money which would be disbursed to a CDF account for a period of over three years. Where would the auditors be? The fight against corruption has simply been politicised. The person in charge of fighting corruption in this country tells people to take political responsibility, yet he is supposed to investigate those people, instead of making such roadside pronouncements. When is political irresponsibility a crime? When is being politically irresponsible corruption? So, enacting this Bill will help us fight corruption properly. Corruption is still very rampant in this country, because those who looted the economy of this country--- Whatever they got from the public has not been recovered. We should be talking about the Anglo Leasing scandals, and not about small bribes being given all over the place. After all, the agents of the anti-corruption body are themselves taking bribes from people. If you go to Kisumu, people are complaining all over the streets that these anti-corruption agents are taking bribes from people while they chase police officers when they get them by the roadside. What kind of corruption are these people fighting? They have failed to recover what was looted from this country. They are, themselves, taking bribes yet they chase police officers. One day, around Ahero, they chased one policewoman into the rice field. She then collapsed in the water. They claimed that she was taking bribes. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Anti-Corruption Commission in this country has failed, as one Member of Parliament has said, to do civic education so that they tell people if you do this or that, it is corruption and we shall get hold of you. They have failed to teach Kenyans that the Act that we passed in 2003 is against Harambee ."
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