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    "content": "vehicles for security. When you talk about motor vehicles for security, my main concern is not on the land but in the water and the police have no means of getting into the water. To date the people of Mbita pay taxes to Uganda. I am not saying this as an alarmist thing but it is the reality and indeed the OCP said to the Committee that because we do not have the resources, it is Uganda that provides protection; therefore our fishermen pay taxes to Uganda. I am very happy that the Committee actually visited and saw for themselves. I am very happy also with the recommendations on the need for urgent review of the Public Procurement and Disposal Act of 2005 to deal with the procurement challenges. Just as the hon. Member has indicated, you discover actually that there is a lot of the work especially, for those of us who are manning CDF. You will find that bottlenecks are put around the issue of procurement. Whether it is real or imagined, I do not know but, if it is an issue of the` Act, then we need to review it so that we are able to effect the development agenda that we have. One of the hon. Members in speaking has raised concerns about it and I would also want to add my voice that we need to do a cost-benefit analysis, but other than that, I am just wondering account the practicality of the national Government being in control of a leasing process, where it is devolved units that are in charge. If it were up to me, I would rather that no money was put into it until the cost-benefit analysis is done. I also want to thank the Committee for preemptively awarding Kshs.80 million to the Witness Protection Agency. The only thing which is not very clear is in relation to victims of crime, because it is written as an allocation or addition to the Witness Protection Agency. I hope it is clear that as the Chairman of the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee indicated, that it will be for victims of crime. I had hoped that we would have put more allocation to the bodies that deal with anti-corruption. The level of corruption in this country is sickening. You want to do your work but when you see the people who want bribes; everybody wants to be bribed, from the sweeper to the top management. They all want a certain percentage. I wanted to do something which is out of place; that is to bring a Motion to legalize corruption, so that those of us who want to do our things in a straight forward manner are not harassed. We can put in the budget even if it is 10 or 20 per cent, and state this will go to so and so. If we are not able to do that then we must put money into seriously eradicating corruption in this country. Due to lack of time, I am happy with the increase to the National Gender and Equality Commission and the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, but I wish that you had added a little more allocation to the National Cohesion and Integration Commission. I get shocked when people are opposed to national dialogue and we are saying we do it here in Parliament, yet problems are not being solved. In fact, for me national dialogue should not even involve leaders, it should involve Auma, Atieno, Wanjiru but nobody knows. This is because in this country the level of ethnic hatred is toxic. It is not something that we should politicize or joke about, it is something that we need to deal with seriously, otherwise this country will go to the dogs."
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