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    "content": "shame and expose that have been put in all the newspapers. When you find CSs and prominent leaders, for example, the CS for Lands, Housing and Urban Development has been pointed out for misappropriating Kshs65 million and the PS for Transport and Infrastructure, Kshs320 million, we should try and translate those figures in terms of how much medicine that money can buy for Kenyans, how much clean water can be supplied to Kenyans and how many Kenyans can access education. Sen. Karaba talked about the number of teachers we need. This is where the resources would come from. The resources have been misallocated. We are talking about a report that has up to 175 cases. That is a long list and we need to sort it out. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we should ask ourselves when the rains started beating us. When should we have addressed these issues and put them in the rightful place? What happened to the checks and balances that we have put in place? What happened to the commissions that we have put in place and the other regulatory bodies that we have put in place? I am looking at a sum of about Kshs2 billion that has been given to the EACC with many employees, but we are seeing a report that seems to be either incomplete or cases that seem not to have been investigated. The report states that the EACC has handled so many cases. The word “handle” should not be used because many people are handling cases. We should instead be told how many cases have been resolved or what action has been taken. This is a culture that is going to put us in a very difficult situation in this country because if our youth grow up in this culture, then it will be very difficult to instill discipline. The values that the President has quoted are in Chapter 10 and are very important for the development of the country. They are about patriotism, integrity, honesty, hard work, devolution of resources and power to the people. All these values cannot be taken seriously if we do not allow our institutions to work. We should not just think about the people in those institutions. The institutions should be able to work no matter which people are actually there. If you look at the list of 175 persons, does it include all the perpetrators of corruption? I do not think so. This means that there are many others who are not in that list. If this is the total figure of how much has been amassed over time, then what are the figures out there that we do not know and how are we going to attain Vision 2030 as projected if we are not able to put our resources together so that we can actually do this massive take off? Countries like Finland, Norway and Sweden have been able to do that; their poverty indexes are much lower than the one that we have. For example, Kenya’s poverty index is at 0.229 which is very high. As Sen. Ong’era said, we are 147 out of 187 in the human development index. We are 40 from the bottom. Thank you."
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