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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
    "speaker_title": "The Prime Minister",
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        "legal_name": "Raila Amolo Odinga",
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    "content": "Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance to detect the fraud. There was apparently a systematic and, even a co-ordinated effort to steal the Free Primary Education (FPE) money and the future of our children! The frustrations run deep, far and wide. The United Kingdom (UK) Secretary in charge of Development Assistance wrote to me twice stressing that the UK would like to increase financial assistance to Kenya, but was unable to put its monies through Kenya’s public financial systems largely because of this education project case. The World Bank, together with DFID and CIDA suspended the Kenya Education Sector Support Programme (KESSP) nearly two years ago, but we are yet to come to a closure of the education sector fraud. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to acknowledge that, in this case, the Internal Audit Department of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance did undertake an audit and the Treasury has now made public its damning findings. That is a positive step. I also want to acknowledge that the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) has tried to get to the bottom of this matter. As we speak, the KACC has investigated and is investigating 60 cases of this fraud involving Ksh192.6 million. This includes 25 cases that are in court involving Ksh80.7 million. However, all this is not enough. The future of our children is still in peril. The issue is not that misuse of public funds occurs because it can happen in any country. However, the issue is our inability to deal with it firmly, decisively and swiftly. I deeply regret that those parents who sacrificed even basic necessities so that their children can go to school are deprived of public money and donor funds that they deserve. However, I did make my position known on this matter from the very first day; that is that those involved must take responsibility at every level."
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