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    "speaker_name": "34 Wednesday, 22nd August, 2012(A) Mrs. Odhiambo-Mabona",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. First of all, I want to support this Bill and indicate that I had a lot to say on it. But because of the two minutes, I will summarize what I have and others by way of amendments which I will bring. By the time we get to a point where, as a country, we are legislating on integrity, you know that we have sunk very low. So, I want to agree with hon. Najib Balala that we have a problem, but I want to say that the problem is not just with the leadership but with the whole country because we do not get leaders from Mars but from ourselves or the community. The challenge we have as Kenyans is that the moment you become a leader, you are very good and you will be elected. However, a day later, you are condemned and rotten. So, as a country, we must also learn to start believing in our leaders because not all our leaders are rotten. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I heard the Minister for Trade, hon. Wetangula, say that there is nothing unconstitutional about this Bill but I want to say that most of the time, we do not have sins of commission but sins of omission. So, for me, it is not much in terms of what has been provided but what has been excluded. Sometimes by exclusion, we are unconstitutional. I will give an example, again, because of lack of time that if you look at the Constitution, you will see that it says that we will have high standards of probity both in public and in private. We are very silent on the one on private. In some places, we have replicated what the Constitution provides in terms of standards and in some instances we have gone quiet."
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