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    "id": 532209,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. S. S. Ahmed",
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": "We guide him and suggest that he must go ahead, do what he thinks is right, use the role models that he has mentioned and put right what should have been put right in 1964. Please, Your Excellency, finish off what your father, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, the founding President, started. Please, see that through. We will support you. Corruption has no party or tribe. I would like to go straight to the issue of corruption. So much is being spoken about corruption. In this House, we have the African Parliamentarians against Corruption (APNAC). Hon. Deputy Speaker, you are one of the members. The Speaker of the Senate and the Speaker of the National Assembly are members. There are about 30 members. All of them are beyond reproach. None has been mentioned anywhere. Hon. Millie Odhiambo has already clarified her role. She is also a very good and supportive member. As Members of Parliament, we must all be beyond reproach. I urge you all to set a record. Let all Members of the 11th Parliament be members of APNAC. It will be a record. We will show by way of our commitment that, that legislative body wishes to control itself, work under the ethics, code of conduct and ideals that have been set out by the global body of anti-corruption. We are the legislative arm. I urge all of us to, please, do that. In the last ten years, Kenya has been in the corruption list. It has been on that list for a long time. We are with other countries like Nigeria and Pakistan, but we are doing better. No matter what we say, the President has gone ahead and tabled a list. It shows the fact that he has drawn a line. This list should not be the last. This should be the beginning of the lists. We had in the earlier parliaments “name and shame.” This is the list. However, some of the issues in this list have got a lot of gaps. Some of them are just allegations. However, it is a start. I urge His Excellency the President to do that. Furthermore, I urge His Excellency to, please, put together all these anti-corruption bodies - and APNAC and this legislative assembly are part of them - with the State Department of Justice, the EACC and the other committee. The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) has a problem. The Chairman has not even been cleared. He never had the passion and we said so. Other commissioners are now fighting the Chairman. None of them is clean. So, their names must also be in this list. With those few remarks, hon. Deputy Speaker, thank you very much for giving me the time."
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