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    "content": "wake up at night when we are asleep. There is a man who went somewhere and said that the people of area x are lazy. He was asked why he thought they are lazy and he said that they sleep the whole day. He never cared to find out that fishing is done at night. So, those people do their work at night and relax during the day waiting for another night to do the same. Such hardworking people deserve to be protected by us, by ensuring that we do not have a corrupt regime. I want to insist that we cannot fight corruption as Government versus the opposition. We cannot fight corruption as the intellectual versus those who never went to school. Each one of us must take that responsibility to close doors to corruption. If you are a businessman or a supplier and you know that you influence companies to take tenders in the wrong manner, you must stop supplying things by means of corruption. You will find that such people are public officers who tell others that a tender is worth Kshs10 billion and they could make Kshs500 million, for example. Both Government and private sectors must deal with corruption so that we make it a thing of the past and make our country beautiful again. The last issue I want to put across is that our counties must not use the fact that the national Government is tackling corruption as an excuse to perpetuate and continue with corruption. Every time we have asked questions as Senators, we have been told not to ask questions. Instead, they have asked us to deal with corruption in the national Government. The bad manners of the national Government must not be devolved. Corruption was not one of the functions to be devolved. Our counties were supposed to start on a clean slate. As Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo has said, over and over again, when you go to the local area, you will find people running around with big cars threatening other people with elections. The British Ambassador to Kenya, Mr. Edward Clay, said that they have eaten everything that we devolved and now they are vomiting on our shoes because they do it so openly in the presence of everybody else. You cannot explain how certain things happened. It is important that as we continue doing our oversight work as Senators---. This is something that Sen. Cheruiyot needs to put a lot of focus on in his county, because there was a lull period between his predecessor being appointed and the time he came. You never know what has been happening. So, he also needs to move with speed in Kericho to find out what exactly has been happening and if the resources have been used well because all of us have a responsibility to do matters of oversight. If we do that, we will have a beautiful country."
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