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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Onyura",
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        "legal_name": "Michael Aringo Onyura",
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    "content": "has been taken. I cannot think of any case that has been followed up and has been prosecuted because of these reports from PIC and PAC. It is high time this National Assembly put its foot down to make sure that those reports are actually followed up. I differ slightly with my colleague who has said that, maybe, it is the Opposition that is not checking the Government. But you see, it is the Government that has the machinery to enforce. It controls the Ethics and Anti-corruption Commission, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and those who are supposed to take action against the perpetrators of those ills against Kenyans. It is the one that is supposed to investigate. All we can do is point out and adopt reports like we are doing now. We also know that PIC is chaired by the Opposition. The Committee has brought up those things and made recommendations. The Members have told us:- “These are the people who looted and those are the properties that got lost.” So, those who have the machinery should take the responsibility to ensure that the matter is followed up and those who have committed those offences are held to account. Going through the reports, the extent of corruption, wastage and looting is shocking. We need to curb this. Talking about the parastatals, my view is that the Government should get out of business. It should privatise the parastatals because they make a lot of losses. They feel that the Government should remain in those parastatals. The Government should make sure that the management and running of those parastatals is done at the highest professional levels possible. It should ensure that those who are hired to manage those organizations are the best candidates that we can find in Kenya. They should be hired based on merit and nothing more. They should not be hired on any other grounds like the regions they come from or the language that they speak. That has been one of the problems that we have in Kenya. We hire people, give them big responsibilities and a lot of money is pumped into those organizations, but there is no professional commitment in those who are running the organisations. A colleague has mentioned the case of the sugar industry. It is a shame! At one time, those factories were doing very well. They were making profits and the farmers were enjoying. With time, slowly and slowly, they started being looted. Reports have been written, even naming the people who have been doing this and the extent to which they have plundered those organizations, but nothing has been done. Mega scandals have rocked us in the past and they are even going on now. Names have been brought up. Instead, what do we see? The very people who are named in those mega scandals, like Anglo Leasing and Goldenberg, are the ones you find enjoying life. Unfortunately, they are being treated with a lot of respect even from the ordinary wananchi . Instead of shunning people like those and looking at them as criminals and thieves, we treat them with respect. Unfortunately, because of the sort of money that they have, they find their way to places like the National Assembly. If we go that route, we shall never develop as a country. I also want to mention something else that is disturbing. Capital and infrastructural projects are started and never completed. For example, a tarmac road in Butula of hardly 30 kilometres has taken over eight years to construct. Even then, it has not been done half way. I would imagine that before such projects are undertaken, money The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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