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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
    "speaker_title": "The Prime Minister",
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        "legal_name": "Raila Amolo Odinga",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Member of Parliament for Ikolomani – and I have not had an opportunity to congratulate him on his re-election - talked about the staff who had been prosecuted last year. He wanted to know what had transpired since last year and now, and what will be done to other officers whom he has named, and who were directly responsible for disbursement. I have said that people must take responsibility at every level. None will be spared. All those people will be made to answer for crimes, if any, that they may have committed in this saga. I will talk about the other part of his question later. Hon. Isaac Ruto is calling for structural adjustment in the Ministry of Education to deal with this issue, for example, by providing for direct disbursement of funds to the counties as opposed to the current system that is being operated by the Ministry. However, first, the counties have not been fully operationalized until after the next elections. Secondly, the hon. Member will remember that in the devolved Government system, education was one of those things that were not devolved. The health services were devolved. The hon. Member may remember that there was a very strong campaign by KNUT. That is why the education sector was not devolved as such. With hindsight, that was a mistake. Education should have been devolved. There is a provision in the Constitution for delegation; to delegate some of the responsibilities that have not been devolved. This is one of the subjects which the taskforce formed by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Local Government has been grappling with; how to delegate some of the responsibilities that were not devolved. Educational services should be better managed by the county governments rather than the Central Government. The Central Government could delegate a representative at the county level, whose responsibility will be supervising the management of education by the counties, to ensure that there is parity countrywide, and that equal standards are maintained throughout the country. Hon. Langat talked about the statement that was issued by the Director of KACC yesterday. KACC, at the moment, has only powers to investigate. It does not have prosecutorial powers. So, once it has investigated, it hands over to the Attorney- General who is, at the moment, also the Director of Public Prosecutions. So, it is the responsibility of the Attorney-General to prosecute. I have details from KACC which show in detail how many cases have been investigated and handed over to the Attorney-General for prosecution. But they have not been prosecuted. That, hon. Member for Ainamoi, was not politics, but facts coming from the Director of KACC. However, I do not hold brief for the Director of KACC in any way. The hon. Member for Gichugu wanted to know what steps the police and KACC are taking to freeze assets belonging to suspects. That is a profession for the police."
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