GET /api/v0.1/hansard/entries/371347/?format=api
HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept
{
"id": 371347,
"url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/371347/?format=api",
"text_counter": 412,
"type": "speech",
"speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Chae",
"speaker_title": "",
"speaker": {
"id": 960,
"legal_name": "Alice Nyanchoka Chae",
"slug": "alice-nyanchoka-chae"
},
"content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this chance to support this Motion. Corruption as we know it from the word go, is actually making us to be what we are, even Kenyans are what they are because of corruption. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am in Parliament for the first time, and I have had an experience and I feel that, if we worked with this kind of experience that I got, it will save us so many things. I have come to learn that we in Parliament are the people to decide the direction Kenya should go. If we want Kenya to be free of corruption, it must begin from this House. I am saying so because Parliamentarians in different committees, starting from Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Public Investments Committee (PIC) and other departmental committees have a say. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, what do we do with the recommendations that we make from PAC, PIC and our departmental committees? Do we follow the recommendations that we make and make sure that they have been adopted and those concerned have responded the way recommended? It is a wakeup call that as Parliamentarians we are the people to change the country. If we put frameworks from our recommendations, it will be good. Even those commissions that have been put in place, their reports have come through Parliament and have been debated and adopted. What happens then? Do we make follow ups or that is the end? Do we have a structure that is connecting our committees to the leadership of the House so that after we have done the recommendations, these reports come to Parliament, we debate them, adopt and then we release them as a House? But the way it is done, it is not coming out well. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we know the Auditor-Generalâs office and we talk about it being autonomous and independent. But then, if the independence of money is not there, how can it work? The hon. Member who has spoken before me said that we have added another responsibility to the Auditor-Generalâs office. We have 47 counties, he is going to work on them and make sure that all those counties function well without corruption. How is that office going to work when money is not there?"
}