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"content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, when Justice Mumbi Ngugi declared the appointment of County Commissioners illegal, the Government kept them in office. When hon. Otieno MakâOnyango was awarded Kshs20 million, the Government refused to pay. Why should we then blame the teachers if they take a cue from the Government? It is that same attitude which is the biggest hindrance to the fight against corruption. Hon. Members on the opposite side can deny it to high heavens, but that is the truth. The biggest culprit of contempt of court in Kenya is the Government of the Republic of Kenya, and it is setting a bad precedent. We must call a spade a spade! Hon. Deputy Speaker, I remember with nostalgia when I left university in the early 1990s. With Kshs10.00, I could buy a loaf of bread, a packet of milk and two eggs. Fifty cents used to take me from my house in Zimmerman to town but, because of Goldenberg International, some of us found ourselves stepping out of university as engineers to become hawkers on the streets of Nairobi. How can we support such a person?"
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