Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 532896,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/532896/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 136,
    "type": "other",
    "speaker_name": "",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": "Let them investigate him because we are persuaded that he has not stolen anybody’s land. He is only administering his father’s land, which he was jointly to administer with his father’s two wives and two brothers, all of whom died. Did they want Sen. Orengo to release it, so that the politicians of this country could grab it from his family? I want to agree that no political leaders, parties or communities should shield perpetrators of corruption. It is my humble submission that all concerned must step aside, but not illogically. People must step aside in accordance with the law. As I told my brother and political teacher, Sen. Orengo, I expect that he is going to shame them by leading them. He can never step down as the Senator for Siaya. He can step down as the Chairman of the Committee on Implementation, if they think by virtue of that position, he is making their investigations difficult, let him do it. The same should apply to Members of the National Assembly who are mentioned in this Report. As far as governors are concerned, they have nowhere to hide. I talked to my daughter this morning, she is a lawyer of the High Court at Wetangula and Company Advocates. Viviane told me that the word “step aside” has no meaning in law. It is just an English word meant to maintain good manners, good behavior, demeanor and so on. Governors should stop hiding on the issue of their being removed from office; they are not being removed from office. They should step aside to allow our investigative officers to go to City Hall and find out what Governor Kidero has been doing. That is all we are talking about. The Constitution is so protective that their stepping aside will not amount to losing their positions. I beg Kenyans that we put pressure on these governors, so that the ones who have stolen can be smoked out. For your information, this report shows how inefficient this Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) is because most of the things they have reported here are actually in the reports of the Auditor-General. The same issues that we were begging that these governors come to us, we absolve them, so that they do not have to go to the EACC. Had the governors come, we would have cleared them in the normal manner. So, for them to say that they are being accused for things they have not been told - who told them that when you are planning to catch a thief, you tell the thief that, I am about to catch you run away. You have to go in a clandestine manner and in all manner of ways to catch these thieves. The governors are thieves, they are stealing from us. We also have to be very careful about ourselves, we are now saying EACC is useless, it might be useless - kindly hold my time, I have got four minutes remaining, sympathize with me."
}