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    "content": "they have done after every 30 kilometres. I know that by the end of this year – the President talked about 30 per cent –more than 60 per cent of the work would have been done. The SGR will increase the transportation of our cargo and also human beings. That will be a wonderful thing and we should applaud the President for that. Moving to the last point on the annex; the list of over 175 people mentioned, the President stated very clearly and we should thank him and insist that this country must be a corruption free zone. We will support the efforts by the Government and the President to make sure that this country is on the right track for our children. If we continue with either the perceived or real corruption, this country will not go anywhere. We have seen countries like Rwanda being very thorough. Rwanda came out of war and we now talk about it and compare ourselves with it. So, we need to be serious about the monster of corruption. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, looking at this list, as much as I support the President 100 per cent, the presumption of being innocent until proven guilty and the rule of law must be followed. I say so because some of us are on record. When the Deputy President was named - his name appeared in the list- some of us said that he was never asked to record a statement. He was never given a fair hearing. I said and I will say again that I hope that the people who are named in this list are not hearing about their cases for the first time. I hope that they are seeing their names having known their problems and recorded statements. I hope that this list was not rushed to the President to believe that some people are working--- Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, investigations are on-going and evidence is being analysed. Therefore, we still have a long way to go. I call upon the people in charge; the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), to note that the President talked of 60 days. Within 60 days, we want to see the report that will come up. The report should come to this House so that we go through it and prove that the accusations and allegations against so-and-so have been proven by the EACC. We should see that a certain person has a problem and he or she is being taken to court or not. We do not want people to be victimised. We want fair hearing for all the individuals concerned. However, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, despite all these names, the EACC must also put its house in order. If they are pointing fingers at one another, I do not think they have time to go through this list. So, they have to put their house in order as soon as possible. They have to embark on this and we want to see this exercise carried out smoothly so that Kenyans can know that this place is a corruption free zone. We will not support any corrupt person. We want the corrupt to be taken to where they deserve and those who are not corrupt to resume their duties of building and contributing to this nation. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I support the Speech by the President and call upon all my colleagues to also support it 100 per cent. With those few remarks, I thank you."
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