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    "id": 645349,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kaluma",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "of resources of this country, both in terms of public service, how we use them around and how we equally share them. The state of the nation is not as rosy as was depicted in the speech. My hope is that His Excellency the President was talking more to those in his Government than to himself because, to me, he appears to mean well. When we criticise, do not think we are doing it for the sake of it. I believe we criticise positively. Forty tribes of this country feel excluded from this Government. I am speaking from great reality as a leader. Senior public service jobs have become too predictable in our country. When a Cabinet Secretary (CS) and heads of parastatals are appointed, it is so predictable to Kenyans where those individuals ought to come from. That is a very dangerous thing. We can talk about roads being opened. You have heard the questions being posed by leaders. Where are the roads? You will see these roads are predominantly coming from particular regions of this country. I think our President should go a step further and lecture the individuals he has put in charge of various Government departments to properly relearn the boundaries of this country. When you talk about roads being constructed and the entire Homa Bay County has no single road and yet they pay taxes as other Kenyans, there is a problem. When you talk about hospitals and you are refurbishing some at Kshs17 billion while in Homa Bay County we do not have a single national referral facility, there is a problem. You cannot dump a machine there without even a doctor and say you are helping us. So, the President should be talking more to the people. The war on corruption is lost. As a leader and as a Member of Parliament serving in the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, let me say that there will be no meaningful war against corruption in this country until we reorganise the Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission (EACC) Secretariat; and until we reorganise the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). Remember we may be blaming the Judiciary, but the Judiciary holds the scales equally between the accused and the non-accused. The Judiciary operates based on evidence. That evidence must be provided by the investigators; that evidence must be placed before the court by the prosecution. You may say whatever you want to say, but it cannot work. The President’s Speech blamed the county governments and I see very many of us falling into the trap. We have 48 governments in Kenya; one national Government and a government in each county. Let the national Government not give the people of Kenya the idea that it is giving the county governments money. It is this Parliament dividing money between the national Government and the 47 county governments. We want the President to tell us what we are doing with the national Government resources even as we go after the county governments. Lastly, the gap between the rich and the poor worries me. The debt being proposed for us to pay as a country when our President is going around continuously saying he is getting more money is worrying. If you are going to use over---"
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