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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me a chance to contribute to this very important Motion. I salute the distinguished new Senator, Moses Otieno Kajwang. I regret that I was in a meeting and missed his Maiden Speech. I would have loved to hear him. But I know how eloquent and bright he is. I campaigned for him and we criss-crossed Homa Bay County. He was quite dynamic. So, I thank the people of Homa Bay for electing a young distinguished Senator to fit in the shoes of our departed brother, Gerald Otieno Kajwang. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I will speak to a few things that are in this Report. I am a Member of this Committee and want to salute my Chairman who is seated in front of me. He is sometimes high-handed, but he has chaired the Committee very competently. The Committee has done a good job. Looking at the Budget and resources that we are pumping in this country, the big question that we keep asking ourselves is: Does this annual ritual and cycle make a difference in the lives of the people of Kenya? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, does every single cent that goes into the Budget reach the destination where it is destined? How do we fight the bottlenecks, the leakages and seepages that hemorrhage the budget? Today, in this country, what is now commonly called “rent seeking” -some people call it mlungula, others call it corruption and now we have a new name “chicken gate” - has reached fever pitch. People are working in Government and public offices not for the public but for themselves. The obscenities we are seeing around governors is frightening. For those of us who believe in devolution, it is very disheartening to see that what we have devolved is to create a small clique in every county that is busy living in opulence and obscenity while the ordinary person is suffering. Take any county, the amount of money, inadequate as it is, that has been sent to each county, ought to have changed the lives of the people. However, it has changed the lives of governors and those who hang around them. The ordinary person in the counties is worse off than before devolution. You expect to see water, good roads, proper health services and many other things, but they are not there. We face this because the problem of corruption in this country has become endemic. What are the institutions that fight corruption doing? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have the police with a fully fledged Criminal Investigation Department (CID) wing. We do not hear of them anymore. When we hear about the CID, they are pursuing a Member of Parliament for making a speech that annoyed a leader or a Member of Parliament who went to demonstrate to demand The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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