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    "id": 535060,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. F.K. Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance to take note of what His Excellency the President said. One, I want to thank him for having upped the fight against corruption. Many institutions and the good parastatals we knew of are doing very badly, particularly in the sugar sector. After this storm - I call it a storm because it has never happened - I expect the President to sustain the fight against corruption. My worry is that this Report came prematurely because the status of most of the investigations is not clear. Some of the investigations are preliminary. Some cases are in court while others are under investigations. We do not even understand. So, this Report was premature. It should have waited. We have a case of a lady who gave a bribe of Kshs100 million and it was brought here. That was about seven months ago. It is still in the preliminary stage of investigations. The case of my Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives is in the preliminary stages. I am not party to what happened. But what happens? I have been branded corrupt. We want the Report to be thorough. I am made to understand that various organisations have seconded investigators to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) and they are given 60 days. Where on earth will you get tangible and credible results within 60 days? I understand there is good work being done, but 60 days are too few to have credible investigations and results. We have cases which have taken over 20 years and they are still coming here. I have condemned the accusations against the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives. I hope the Speaker is going to come up with a good direction this afternoon, because there is no point in us being lumped together as corrupt. I now understand there was a bribe of Kshs100 million. I did not even know that. The issue came to this Parliament, but where was EACC all this time? They are now rushing things to please the President. I looked at His Excellency the President in the face and I saw that he meant well. However, the people and institutions around him are doing bogus work. Much as the President said the economy is doing very well, he did not mention anything about domestic borrowing. We read and hear that we are almost going to over 50 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). That means we are living beyond our means. We have the case of Eurobond, which was put in the accounts. I expected the President to have said how that money has been used. It is not there. I have read through the Speech but there is nothing. What happened with the Eurobond that we floated? That was just before the Anglo Leasing payments. Where is it? He should have come out clean and told us about the Eurobond because it was put in accounts. As I finish, there is corruption in the Civil Service today. Last weekend, I saw a whole civil servant donating almost Kshs500,000 to a political Harambee. What is happening? One hand does not know what the other hand is doing? I support the Report and hope that His Excellency the President will sustain the fight against corruption."
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