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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Mwendwa",
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        "legal_name": "Winfred Nyiva Mwendwa",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, hon. Deputy Speaker. I would like to appreciate the Speech given by the President. I have been here long enough but we have not had a President pronounce the things which our Presidentof today pronounced especially on corruption. In Kenya, we have three cancers. Cancer number one which was also mentioned by the President is corruption. Two, is ethnicity and three, is security. The two last ones, ethnicity and security, are governed by corruption. We have agreed that it is good at least the President started doing something on corruption because we have not heard it pronounced for the last 50 years. My concern at the moment is whether there will be meaningful investigations. Hon. Deputy Speaker, as I stand here, we have had investigations done on the deaths of Pinto Gama, Ronald Ngala, Tom Mboya, J.M. Kariuki, Kungu Karumba and Robert Ouko. All those investigations were carried out but we have never got the results. My main concern as I stand in this august House is whether investigations are going to be done properly on the issue of corruption and the people mentioned so that we have meaningful results. Or are they going to be swept under the carpet as usual? This is a big issue because the people mentioned in this Report are not small people. They are very able people and we wonder whether we have the capacity to investigate them especially when it comes to corruption, if we have failed to investigate the deaths of our senior politicians and leaders in this country. I was of the opinion and I have given a recommendation to the President, if he is going to fight this battle of corruption, for him to win he might need help from outside because I think our investigators might not be up to the task. It is true and my friends have mentioned it before that some countries like Singapore and Malaysia, the Prime Ministers have fought corruption and saved their countries. It is of great concern whether this is going to happen to us. I will recommend that if investigators cannot do the job, we might humble ourselves and look for help outside. That is my recommendation. With those few remarks, I thank you and I support."
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