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    "id": 682096,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gaichuhie",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 17,
        "legal_name": "Nelson Ributhi Gaichuhie",
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    "content": "suspect. We also need to say how long the case should take once you report, so that we can know how long it will take to take the suspects to court. We should say it is not only the small people who will be taken to court. When you post a police officer on our roads, they will tell you it is a chain. They have to take bribes which they have to transmit to their heads. We saw the clean-up in the National Police Service where they were saying people were found with a lot of money. The only thing they did is just to suspend the police officers. We have not seen any, even a single one, being taken to court. If somebody has been suspended or dismissed because of corruption, I think the next course of action would have been to take them to court. As we continue legislating, we need to have strict timelines, the goodwill of everybody to fight corruption and ask the private sector to support this. The Government does not do business alone. They do business with the private sector. If the private sector is keen to fight corruption, we shall have won the war on corruption. Otherwise, I support the Bill and ask everybody to take a step forward and come out clearly. We have all the laws. We have even the Witness Protection Act, which we need to look at because it is also very hard to get witnesses protected. If witnesses are protected, more people will report bribery cases. Also, it takes two to tangle. We should also allow people to report bribery, if they bribe, because at times you are forced to bribe. If you are forced to bribe, it is good to say, “yes, I bribed so and so because he forced me to bribe.” We should protect that person. He should not be treated just like a criminal, but as a witness. With those very few remarks, I thank you and ask that we be serious on the war against corruption."
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