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    "id": 682151,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Koyi",
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        "legal_name": "John Waluke Koyi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for also giving me a chance to contribute. We have passed many laws in this country about bribery and corruption. We have been let down by the EACC. Sometimes we encourage corruption. Most of the rich people in this country are corrupt and most of them are politicians and senior civil servants. I cited one case the other day of a person who is still a civil servant at the National Treasury putting up buildings worth almost Kshs1 billion. You wonder where a civil servant working at the National Treasury can get the money to put up buildings worth Kshs1 billion. You wonder where he got this money from. To stop corruption, we must start with this House. Some of us in this House are corrupt. I cannot say all of us, but some of us are corrupt. I once wrote a letter to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the EACC to investigate a case in my constituency where a small generator house was built at a cost of Kshs15 million. In my view, that should have been built at a cost of Kshs200,000. Nothing has happened since 2014. What is their work? There were tanks that were built before I was born in the 50s, but the county government renovated them at a cost of Kshs27 million. I again wrote to the CEO of the EACC to investigate that case, but he has not responded since then. The EACC is not fighting corruption, but misusing public money. They earn salaries and sometimes people bribe them so that they are not investigated. We are wasting public funds by having a body that is not bearing fruits to the public. I support."
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