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    "content": "publicly and I am saying it on record now, that no matter what happens, the Treasury Secretary and the Attorney-General, under the new Constitution, will have to answer. By that one action, all the cowboy contractors can now legally claim payment of work not done for the Kenyan people. What was the reason of saying that embassies will be auctioned? Our embassies and property abroad are covered by the Vienna Convention and nobody can auction them. But because of this excessive appetite for money our people have, there is so much pressure on civil servants to pay money for work not done. This House must rise and stop it. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, look at this so-called security contract of Safaricom that is pegged on the public shareholding of Safaricom of US$15 billion, nobody has explained to Kenyans about it. What did the Kshs4 billion allocated to the Ministry in charge of Nairobi Metropolitan do and where are the cameras on the streets? You cannot say that the President picked his phone and called Safaricom. Presidents do not do procurement and our President must give us a break. He cannot pick a phone and do procurement and single source. That is theft! Safaricom is largely owned by foreigners. Why would we want to sell our security to foreigners? Safaricom does not sell cameras; even now on the streets, they do not sell simple cameras. If you divide 1800 cameras against Kshs15 billion, you will find an amount that no camera can cost. Our people are suffering. People are dying in Baringo and how is it that we can just wake up and say casually that we can spend that kind of money in a shadow deal? The President owes this country an explanation and he will explain it one day. Somebody must tell Kenyans we want to be together as a country and that is why we are saying that the leadership of this country must sit down and talk. If the Executive cannot see the answers in the new Constitution for Kenyans, let us sit down and we will show them because we are not foreigners. We are part of this country and we do not want to share Government. We want our ideas to be used to lead the Government so that Kenyans can stop suffering the kind of suffering they are going through. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it cannot be that politicians are getting richer and richer while ordinary Kenyans are getting poorer and poorer. People who are elected are the ones who are paying for it and we cannot allow that. Time comes when something must be stopped. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, corruption is a cancer and a vice that we, as Parliament must all say: “Please, corruption go where you came from and we will all be fine.” I support hon. Mutava Musyimi and his team."
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