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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Abdalla",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amina Ali Abdalla",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity to support this amendment Bill. Unfortunately, for me, this is the third time I am amending this anti- corruption law by changing names, individuals, increasing the numbers, having a board, calling it radical surgery and many things. The situation seems to be getting worse. So, I am just wondering whether we are doing window dressing with these amendments; we are just increasing the appetite of anybody who wants to practise corruption. I say this because even if we amend the numbers, our current law is not equipped to capture the big fish. It is not equipped to capture the person who makes billions that are transferred to foreign accounts. It is only able to capture those who are opportunistic like the policeman at the road and the person who will take a few thousands or millions of shillings that are laced with some substance by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC). We are actually not doing much of a service. My friend, Hon. Nyokabi, was speaking to the improved version of the anti-corruption body in Nigeria. We should not aspire to have such an anti- corruption body. What we should aspire is our Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to be able to do their job, so that we do not need an anti-corruption body. However, now that we are all involved in this window dressing, let me support the few amendments that have been presented in this window dressing exercise by saying that it is useful for the number of commissioners to be increased for purposes of dealing with the challenges of quorum and manipulation. I also believe that it is necessary for any institution to have one centre of power. If that centre of power is in administration, you handle day to day management with policy and oversight. This will help. I am not so sure whether it will improve more than that because this law is not designed for people who have organised and planned corruption. It is 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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