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    "content": "North Rift, particularly in West Pokot in 1984. When the people of that county recall the operation of 1984, they called it “Nyundo Operation”. They wonder whether the type of force that was used on them is really what should be used on the citizens. I know problems are there but we should not do it in such a way as though you intend to kill. We hope that there is a list for the people of West Pokot that were affected, so that they can also benefit from this. As I move towards this list that is attached here indicating and showing about the level of corruption in our country - For the last week, our media has been full of speculations and now the names have come up, people’s faces have been put in the front pages of the newspapers because of corruption. I think because of the level of our greed and tolerance, we have allowed our country to move to this level where the President was forced to bring a document that looked like a working document for the Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission (EACC). Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you look at this document, like Sen. Mong’are talked about, the EACC was not supposed to tell us about the troubles they are going through but to give us a list of the people that they are working on. But to go ahead and tell us and I quote that: “Allocation of adequate resources to the EACC.” That is what they are asking. I thought when they are doing their budgets, they are supposed to take them to the Budget Committee, but not to bring it here or take to the Head of State. They mentioned that they have low morale and that these cases cannot be conducted because they do not have enough money, they want to be given the renumeration structure and that the investigative reports are not adequate. Suddenly, they end up attaching this addendum showing how inadequate they are because it says “allegations that he irregularly facilitated disposal of this”. This means that EACC has failed to do what the whistle blower gave them. I expected them, just like we all expect, to process and confirm whether these allegations are true or not. If they are true, they proceed to say tangibly this has been discovered and that it has been committed by the officer and then they list and further proceed the way they have done. If we read some of these things, we look like we have a Commission that needs to be disbanded today so that we create a new one."
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