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    "id": 418742,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ang’a",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Alice Wambui Ng'ang'a",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is very naive and painful because we are giving the county governments a lot of money and yet, it is not well utilised. I hope this honourable House will agree with me that the funds we have allocated to the county governments, if they are well utilized, can develop the entire nation. But you find that, instead of it being put into development projects, much of it goes to recurrent expenditure and extravagant travels. We need to have a proper scrutiny of how those funds are utilised. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I do not see any reason why we should continue supporting the county governments if they are using all this money we are giving them for recurrent expenditure, unnecessary foreign trips and buying very many cars. That money is not going to help the ordinary mwananchi for whom it was intended for. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, on that note, I would like to raise my concerns about corruption in this country. However much we talk about corruption, the wage bill and retrenchment, I do not think we are heading in the right direction. If we are going to eliminate or reduce corruption in this country, we do not have to go and start sacking people or telling them to take pay cuts. There is a lot of money that is being wasted. The kinds of taxes that Kenyans are paying are very high. If the Government wants to stamp out and reduce corruption which is very rampant, it should give the Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission (EACC) power to investigate, arrest and prosecute the suspects. Otherwise, we shall be playing and going round and round in circles. I remember in the Tenth Parliament, I raised the issue that EACC should be given power and mandate but, as we speak now, all it is doing is shouting. Until and unless we give it teeth to bite, it will remain a toothless bulldog whose work is barking without biting."
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