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    "id": 535258,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Omulele",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Christopher Omulele",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to say thanks to the President for the good Speech that he rendered to this House on 26th March, 2014. My colleagues have spoken widely with regard to the issues that the President touched on in his Speech. I would like to go straight to the addendum to the President‟s Speech; that originated from the EACC. In my humble opinion, the annexure to the President‟s Speech is a cry or a lamentation from the President, to the effect that the agencies we have set out to fight corruption in this country have failed us and him. Why do I say so? I have looked at the President‟s Speech. The language contained in it is concise and to the point, and adheres to the requirements of our Constitution. However, when you look at the addendum from the EACC, you notice that it is a report that was written without any thought process going into it. This Report is dated 20th March 2015. Some of the reports which were sent to the President were actually made to the EACC on that very date. So, what does this tell you? It tells you that no iota of energy was spent in investigating these alleged commissions of crimes. If this is the supreme and premier organ vested with the responsibility of investigating the corruption that we have in this country; and these are the kinds of reports that it makes to the Chief Executive of our Republic; I render the opinion that we are in trouble. In my opinion, the President is asking this Parliament to question if the agency is doing what the people of Kenya expected it to do. Is this the kind of product of investigation from the authority that should be going to the Chief Executive of this country? I believe not. We, as Parliament, must interrogate this Report more carefully and probably reach the conclusion that the people we have set out to go and fight corruption are not doing so, and they are not up to the task. Hon. Speaker, I render the opinion that this Report shows the incompetence on the part of the EACC. They have let us and the President down. Probably, what the President is asking us to do is to send these people home so that we can find Kenyans who can fight corruption. As we speak today, there is a petition in this House, which is resting with the Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, which prays that the National Assembly 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."
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