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    "id": 534969,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lentoimaga",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Alois Musa Lentoimaga",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I want to support the Speech of the President. He did a very commendable job when he came here last Thursday. He gave us a comprehensive Speech. I want to thank him for addressing issues that contribute to our country‟s economic growth; lighting of our schools, infrastructural development, including roads, the LAPSSET project, the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) as well as cash transfer for the elderly, disabled and orphaned people. On the issue of corruption, the President has done a commendable job. The action he has taken is bold. It is not easy. Most of us did not know what the Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission (EACC) was doing, in terms of whose names appear in that list. It is an opaque organisation. When he came here, the President took a bold step. Corruption can only be fought through political will. The highest office of the land can do a lot of good, if you want to fight corruption as a country. Since the President came here and gave us the names of the people who have been mentioned in connection with corruption, those names have become public. It is not easy for those people to go back and manoeuvre their way to office. It is now in the public domain that corruption must be fought. On page 18 of his Speech, the President has said that prosecution will continue. As a House, we must support that due diligence be done. Investigations must go on and prosecution to follow where necessary. There is no turning back on this issue. In the 1990s, corruption in Hong Kong was dealt with by „frying the big fish‟. The purge against corruption started from the top management. That is what the President has done in our case. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am perturbed by what is going on in my county, especially in the area of security. The President did not talk so much on security but, for the last two weeks, Kenyans in that part of the world – Samburu North Constituency – have not known peace. For the last two weeks, killings have been going on. There has been displacement of people in every corner of the constituency. More than 2,000 livestock has been stolen and six people have been killed. Corruption is also the core cause of the business of cattle rustling. Police are not doing anything to contain the menace. We believe that the police are being compromised. They cannot stop the menace. They have not arrested anybody. They do not get out of their camps when raids take place. In fact, they are abetting crime. Maybe, livestock is sold, after which money exchanges hands between the raiders and policemen. The President must rein in the police. The reforms going on in the National Police Service (NPS) must continue. In my view, the NPS must be restructured. It should even be disbanded. I have 480 policemen in Baragoi but none of them goes out to fight crime. There is no command. They cannot go out of their camps to protect Kenyans. Therefore, as we fight corruption, we must also extend the same to the NPS, where raids and counter-raids are being carried out. On the issue of apology, the President was also bold. Out of the Kshs10 billion fund, we should also compensate people who have suffered through cattle rustling, especially the families of the victims of the Baragoi Massacre, where police officers and Kenya Police Reservists (KPRs) were killed. Young families lost their livelihoods when they lost their loved ones. They are poor people who need to be assisted with the Kshs10 billion that will be allocated for that particular course. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}