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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kamanda",
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        "legal_name": "Maina Kamanda",
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    "content": "By the time this Government took power, there were pending bills in the department of roads in the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure that were incurred by the previous Government of nusu mkate. They gave contracts anyhow because it was time to go for elections and left Kshs140 billion pending bills to be settled by this Government. You remember that at one time, we called all the contractors to Parliament and their pending bills had not been paid by the time elections were held. I want to confirm to the Members here that the Jubilee Government has settled the entire Kshs140 billion pending bills. This country has no pending bills anymore. I wonder why we keep referring the issues of corruption to the President while we know very well that there are constitutional bodies that are supposed to deal with corruption. Sometimes I wonder whether we are in the same House with the Members because they know the work of the President is not policing. He is not a judge. There are bodies that are constitutionally entrusted with the responsibility of fighting corruption one being the Judicial Service Commission (JSC). There are many corruption cases including the ones that the President tabled here. That list never originated from him. It originated from the relevant bodies that are supposed to fight corruption. Up to today, nobody has been jailed. We have not heard the Judiciary and the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) doing their work. All what we hear from the Opposition is that the President is unable to fight corruption. I want to remind all of us, as a House, that the responsibility of fighting corruption is for all of us and not one individual. It has to start with Parliament and the Opposition. We should behave like our neighbours in East Africa. Recently, there were elections in Uganda and Tanzania and now they are one family. You do not hear what we hear in Kenya. Five years after the elections, people are still talking about the elections and this goes on up to the next elections. I urge all of us, including the Opposition, that this country belongs to all of us. When we criticise, let us do it positively. 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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