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    "content": "This significant increase in allocation will go towards military and police modernisation, lease financing of police motor vehicles, enhances security operations, police and prison officers’ medical insurance scheme, construction and equipping of the National Forensic Laboratory, construction of police stations and housing, secure our borders, among others. The Government is fully cognisant of the adverse effects that corruption poses to our economy, including inefficiency, low productivity and high cost of doing business. We shall continue strengthening various institutions mandated to fight corruption in the country, particularly the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), the Department of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the police. This will enhance their capacity to vigorously combat corruption and recovery of corruptly acquired assets. We have seen the dividends of the coordinated investigation among those agencies under the Multi-Agency Team (MAT) that brings together the Kenya Police Service (Directorate of Criminal Investigation), the EACC, the Financial Reporting Centre (FRC), the Directorate of Public Prosecutions, the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) and the Asset Recovery Agency (ARA). More than 360 corruption cases are before the court. The ball is now in the Judiciary’s court to expeditiously adjudicate those cases. On asset recovery, MAT has traced, and is in the process of seizing property and assets acquired using proceeds of corruption. We are working with the United Kingdom Government to repatriate about Kshs52 million as proceeds of corruption from the Smith and Ouzman Case. That money will be used to procure 11 ambulances for various hospitals. We are also expecting another Kshs525 million from the Jersey Island Government being proceeds from the entity that was used to transfer illicit money from one of our parastatals; Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) and are in the process of identifying projects that would be financed by those 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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