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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mulu",
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        "legal_name": "Benson Makali Mulu",
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    "content": "worth ten times your salary?” In that way, we will actually have started doing the right work. I also think it is high time our Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission, which is in charge of matters to do with corruption, pulls up its socks. That is because this institution has been allocated money to make sure that when a report like the one we are discussing has made recommendations they take action. That way, these reports will be seen to be important. Otherwise, Kenyans actually laugh at us when we take time to discuss these reports and they do not see anything coming out of them. We have discussed them year in, year out and the question is: For how long are we going to continue discussing these reports? Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am imagining that even for us to encourage the Chairman and the Committee to work hard and make sure that they go to the extent of producing more of these reports; we need to see action being taken so that these reports are not seen as routine. That is because immediately the reports are seen as routine, they will never be taken seriously. People will come to the parastatals, loot and then go home. Others will come and loot and go home. What happens is that once some of them go home, they will find their way round to where we are today. They are then able to defend their past because they are here and are legislating. It thus becomes a cycle and very difficult to get corruption out of our way. Since it seems like all Kenyans have agreed that corruption is a serious problem in this country, I think some of these reports should be a starting point. I am imagining if we see the senior-most guys in the parastatals being taken to court and prosecuted on matters of corruption, then we will be helping this country. As I conclude, I also want to just propose that the Chairman considers what I said earlier. Since most of these findings are common from one year to another, he could consider just dealing with one parastatal up to the current report. In that case, you can do away with the backlog and you will be up to date with the reports. That will help this country and also help us as a Parliament to do our oversight role. With those remarks, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to support the adoption of this important Report. Thank you."
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