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    "id": 531601,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Aden",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Let us all remember that the money that we are appropriating is not freely collected, but money that has been paid by the sweat of Kenyans through diligent payment of taxes. For that reason, I want to urge the managers of these resources to ensure that they do all the due diligence. They should not fail Kenyans in implementing good policies with the money which we have passed. Corruption has, unfortunately, caused leakage in our economy. Unfortunately, a number of cases are reported in all the counties. We are suffering because of projects not being done, money being misappropriated and projects being on record as having been done, but are not done. I want to give an example. Last night, I watched the CitizenTelevision showing a clip from my own county celebrating how the county government has done an elaborate health facility in Hulugho Centre in Garissa County. The entire report was false. Here is the area Member of Parliament seated next to me. All the county government did was to construct a kitchen. All the TV showed, if you cared to look, was just a wall written “Financed by the County Government of Garissa”. We were shown a tank and water, equivalent of which the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) does for Kshs6 million, as having been done at Kshs38 million. This is a waste of resources. If we continue in that direction, some of these issues will challenge our conscience. I want to urge the governors that for God’s sake, Kenyans are looking up to them. More resources are being made available to them and they should not fail Kenyans. As I conclude, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) is the organ that is supposed to oversee issues of corruption. We have availed many of those corruption issues to them. But they too, are involved in their own problems. It is time the EACC sorts out its issues. The Chairman should take charge and ensure that his house is in order, so that they can investigate these issues. I just mentioned a case from Garissa County. There are multiple similar cases in the various counties in this country. Let the EACC stand warned by this House. I urge my fellow hon. Members to join me in looking for ways to ensure that, that organization is either transformed or we deal with it. We must do it. They must act on those enormous corruption issues that are happening in our counties. If corruption is to happen at the rate that it is charged at and the 10 per cent that is alleged that almost every governor takes for every project that is done, this country will not move forward. This appears like a formula that the governors agreed upon as a Council, and I am sorry to say this: If they do that, we are losing huge amounts of money which would transform and change lives for Kenyans. We should not accept this. As the 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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