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    "content": "somewhere must have invested the money somewhere. The case will continue for quite some time and, eventually, the losers will be the taxpayers. The other bit is the issue of Kenya Pipeline Corporation; the famous Triton Project. To date, over Kshs8 billion was lost. Nobody can explain. This is a critical project that has affected everybody not only in Kenya, but in the entire East African region. The only functioning refinery in East Africa is the one that we had in Mombasa. It was closed because of poor investment decisions. The Kenya Pipeline Corporation, which was supposed to modernize that particular sector, engaged the services of a crook in the name of Triton and, eventually, we lost everything. Over Kshs7 billion was lost and nobody can explain. The taxpayers were taken round and, eventually, everybody has given up. How has investigation progressed? Has anybody been found culpable? Is there any hope of the taxpayers getting part of that money that has been looted? It has become a common feature in some of those key public investments that money is lost, people talk about it for a very short time and, eventually, it is forgotten and thrown into the dustbin of history. I hope and pray that once Parliament adopts this Report, the individuals concerned and, in particular, the key agencies concerned, namely the Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission and even the Inspectorate of State Corporations, will play a leading role and ensure that, that money is actually recovered. In total, if you look at the contents of this Report and the 17th Report which we have just concluded, you realise that the issues are almost the same. This has been the trend since the formation of some of those key Government entities. We require a critical change of attitude in the way we perceive public investments. It is like there is no honour and everybody assumes; everybody says it will be done by everybody and, eventually, it becomes a no man’s investment. Those are issues still afflicting some of those key public investments. Currently, under the new constitutional dispensation, the trend still continues. It still persists. If we have to achieve meaningful development and ensure that Kenya takes off as a newly industrialized middle income country, some of those old practices must come to an end. The only way they can come to an end is if the culture of corruption and wastage is brought to an end. It is not through any other mechanism, but through a change of culture, attitude and proper application of the law. I want to take this opportunity to Move this Report and ask my good friend, hon. Mwadeghu, to second."
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