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    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Shebesh",
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        "legal_name": "Rachel Wambui Shebesh",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me just continue saying what I was saying. That is because what I was saying was really fundamental. Kenyans today, in the opinion poll that was carried out in the FM stations and televisions, which I watched very keenly, already showed that they do not have confidence with the work that the current Director of KACC is doing. The horse-trading we do in this House, sometimes, will cost us. I want us to be very clear. The man, whose name I cannot mention, came into this House and was brought through a lot of pressure because of an impression he created that he speaks good English and can articulate issues. We can now see where that has taken us. We need to reach a point where we appoint people to an office because they are capable of doing the work, they are committed and do not need money as an incentive to do their work, neither do they need cameras. What I am saying is that in the conduct of the current Director, we have been forced to really reconsider giving any real powers to this Commission. That is because we are being taught a lesson. My mother says that when you are taught a lesson, you pinch your ear and promise yourself you will never repeat that mistake again. The mistake we are promising ourselves never to repeat is to put a lot of confidence and trust in fighting a big monster called corruption in an individual who has not only let us down as a House that he is supposed to be reporting to, but also the whole country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, where are we today? We are at a point where people want to know what fighting corruption is all about. Surely, it cannot be about karate and showing people how you know how to do karate. It cannot be about being on sting operations every time. It is really about bringing corruption to an end, bringing people to book; seeing that people are being arrested and seeing that prosecutions are going on. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as we continue to discuss this Bill, let us remember the lessons that we are learning. But let us not close our minds to the fact that we brought this problem on our own, and that we have many other commissions that we are forming. I am speaking to the Executive now. This horse trading that you are continuing to do and you did again today, let it not be a lesson that we are pinching our ears and regret."
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