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    "id": 515660,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/515660/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Therefore, it would have been very good for me to wait for the five years of the Jubilee Administration to end and I start asking them where the one million acres on irrigation are. I do not want to do that because then, I would be an irresponsible citizen of this country. I want to talk to the Jubilee Administration today. There is corruption in the irrigation programme. The so-called Galana Irrigation Programme is not going as per the plan. There is corruption there. Under the programme of having 10,000 acres under irrigation per year, for how many years will it take us to reach the 1 million acres at the rate of 10,000 acres per year? It will take us about 100 years. Who would want the Jubilee Administration to be in power for 100 years? Certainly not the Member for Suba. On the issue of governance and oversight, which have been canvassed by my colleagues about the Office of the Auditor-General, the Controller of Budget, the Treasury and the Public Procurement Oversight Authority, I want to specifically talk about corruption. The Government needs to talk about corruption and walk the talk. The President talked about corruption in his own office; the Office of the President. As I speak, there are no arrests. What we have had are some transfers. We want people to be arrested. The presidency is a very senior position in this country. When the President tells us that there is corruption in his office, the following day, we expect people being dragged to prison. We want to see action. What is happening in the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission is a clear case of people who do not want “chickengate” saga to be investigated. We know it. Someone is hell bent to finish this Commission completely because it is probably suspected to have started following some sacred cows in this country. We need to tell the Jubilee Administration that this diversionary tactics will not help. The President continuous to sit in his Cabinet with Chirchir, someone who has been accused extensively. Even the people who bribed him have been jailed in the UK courts. This President is not serious about corruption. We need to say this and repeat it to him so that he can listen: Please, President Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, together with your Deputy William Samoei Ruto, wake up. You cannot continue sitting with corrupt individuals in your Cabinet and you go out there and tell us that going forward, if you are found corrupt, you will be arrested. Who will take you seriously? Until I see Chirchir out of this Government; Hassan out of the IEBC, I will know---"
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