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    "id": 614283,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Anyango",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Dalmas Anyango Otieno",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I wish to support this Motion and in doing so, state that this is not the first policy paper we have got on these issues. The papers have been written and they are known by all Kenyans. Policies have been issued and they are known by all Kenyans. The Constitution is very clear, particularly Article 10. What is missing is that the entire leadership of the Republic is treating leadership as a business. Leadership being treated as a business means you invest some capital in it and exploit other factors of production to reap maximum benefits out of it. We are tempted to bring up children who believe you can buy any position with power. You can buy to be an MCA, MP, Senator, President or Deputy President. If we continue to treat leadership as a business, we are ruining our country and we are definitely going in the wrong direction and no individual will change that course. The weight of the movement towards tribalism, corruption, discrimination, and marginalisation is getting stronger and stronger. We need a counter movement, a revolution, literally, to change the attitudes of Kenyans and hammer those values in Article 10 of the Constitution until we achieve the kind of success we are able to witness in Rwanda. It can be done but we must all believe it. It is shameful that a committee that was supposed to vet the Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission (EACC) commissioners could not raise a quorum. That tells what the leadership of this country is thinking about. Twenty nine Members of the National Assembly do not take it seriously that there is an institution called the EACC. If it starts from here, what is the use of publishing this policy? This is not something the President can do alone. Until we all resolve to change the attitude of all Kenyans, we are misleading this country into destruction . It is as if the country is now free-wheeling to a direction it chooses and yet, we have 4,500 MCAs, 349 MPs, 67 Senators, 20 Cabinet Secretaries(CSs) and 21 Principal Secretaries (PSs). All 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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