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    "content": "going on. The EACC should also have offices in the counties so that it can address issues as they come up instead of waiting to deal with rumours and speculations. When it comes to challenges, the President rightfully mentioned security, unity and corruption. However, when it comes to security, one of the issues to be flagged out was the police vehicle project where 2,400 were procured for policing. I am in the National Security and Foreign Relations Committee and have received a lot of information regarding this issue. The main problem with hiring of vehicles is management. Those vehicles get grounded because a vehicle stationed in Mandera has to come to Mwingi for 15 litres of fuel. This is a system that cannot perform. There are petrol stations all over the country. Kenyans are entrepreneurs and they have set up petrol stations all over. Instead of giving somebody in Mandera a tender to supply fuel as it has been before, drivers are asked to go draw fuel from Mwingi. What will this person be doing any other time? The President has to check what is going on. Yes, the vehicles are there, but they are not useful because of the poor management. That management has to be streamlined so that the vehicles are effective and can respond to the needs of Kenyans wherever they are. With regard to corruption, this is real and permeates through people of all status in this country. We expected when we have a problem like this, for everybody to say that corruption is a cancer and has to be forcefully removed from the public system. We have already established institutions to handle corruption. Those institutions should take their work seriously. Kenyans have to report whenever there is corruption happening anywhere. As a Kenyan, one has a duty to report if the systems have not detected. However, the body that receives the report has to also move a step ahead, investigate and take action. Once Kenyans report corruption to the same institutions and nothing is done, we lose trust in the institutions. We end up feeling as if we are not heading anywhere. The same institutions which have been sleeping on their jobs and fighting should wake up and give a catalogue of allegations they have received. I like the words the President used; “catalogue of allegations.” After they come up with a catalogue of allegations mentioning people left, right and centre in the Government and at the county level – we have over 170 people. Those names go to the public memory as the people who are corrupt. Your image is tainted. The unfortunate thing is that the public does not look out for facts. They run to the social media with what they have. It will take a lot of effort for somebody to clear his or her name in this situation. That means that whoever gives out such a list should also ensure that they do their homework and what they present to the President holds water. Even if those alleged to be involved in corruption will fight back or clear their names, at least, you should have facts. You should investigate issues. You cannot just talk about allegations you have heard from people. People have all manner of reasons as to why they write letters. Some are personal. However, once the letters are written, it is the responsibility of that authority to investigate and establish what is credible and not. After that, you can go a step further to submit the report to the relevant institution to carry out the next step. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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