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    "id": 535010,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/535010/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Akujah",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2138,
        "legal_name": "Protus Ewesit Akujah",
        "slug": "protus-ewesit-akujah"
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    "content": "used to pay teachers. Every term, there is teacher‟s strike because they are demanding an increase in payments. They need hardship allowance and other allowances. The Government cannot afford to pay the teachers while there is a lot of money that is lost in terms of corruption in this country. If that money was to be used in a proper way, we could recruit more policemen to fight insecurity in this country. If the officers who are involved in corruption are arraigned in court and told to pay the money, it can be used to do a lot of development in this country. The infighting within the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) is a clear indication that they are not committed and they do not have the passion to fight corruption. I hope the President will rein in those officers and if, need be, they should be removed from office and people who are ready to fight corruption are brought into that institution to do something. For those who are saying that they cannot step aside, whether you are a State or elected officer, you must step aside because it does not matter whether you have been elected or not. As long as you have been mentioned, you must step aside to give way to the investigators to ascertain whether you have been implicated or not. If investigators find that you are clean, you will go back to your job without any problem. Those who are crying that they will not step aside have something that they are trying to hide in those offices and we cannot accept that. They should step aside, be cleared and go back to their offices or be arraigned in court. The second point is about insecurity. The security situation in Kenya specifically in northern Kenya is getting out of hand. As we speak, the Ilemi Triangle is currently under attack from our neighbours, that is Ethiopia and South Sudan. Two weeks ago, Nadapal, which is in the border of Kenya and South Sudan, was attacked. The South Sudan troops are ten kilometres into Kenya and yet, Kenya is not saying anything about it. It means Kenya is not interested in her own borders and is not taking it seriously. That is a loophole which we should look into. Having 1,200 cars given to the police is not anything, if we are not committed or if the officers who have been mandated to man our territories are not committed. That is because they will be there and they will not be acting on any issue."
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