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    "id": 696449,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kipyegon",
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        "legal_name": "Johana Ngeno Kipyegon",
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    "content": "man is mad and yet they are both mad. When you hear somebody trying to expose serious scandals and shouting a lot about it and yet they have been named in several scandals, it is sad. How I wish this House could speak and walk the talk. We have so many scandals in this country like the National Youth Service (NYS) scandal, the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), Uchumi Supermarket, Mumias Sugar Company and Triton. Forget past ones like the Anglo- Leasing. Those are old scandals and even if we tried to trace them, we would not get anywhere because they have borne children who have now inherited the scandals. You may remember the Laico Regency scandal. Many parastatals have collapsed. How I wish the spirit the Leader of the Majority Party expressed here in condemning the former Prime Minister could be used to condemn the scandals that we have had in this country. There are so many pending cases and scandals that need to be investigated. If God has touched him today and he has seen that there is need to bring to book all the scandalous people in this country, then I wish he goes all the way, so that when we are done with KQ, tomorrow he comes up with the NYS scandal, Uchumi and scandals in all the parastatals that have collapsed. Hon. Speaker, I support any person in this House who wants to stop corruption in this country. I support any Member who comes up with an idea of ensuring that we eradicate corruption in this country, but let us also be sincere to ourselves and to our God. Let us not on one hand speak against corruption and on the other hand, speak for corruption. Even the Bible says that bad and good cannot come through the same hole. I support the issue of forming a select committee although we have the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing, which has been handling this matter for as long as I can remember. It only means that they are either unable to handle the issues arising or they are part of the cartel that is stealing from KQ. I support the idea that we form a select committee comprising Members in the manner that my brother, Hon. (Dr.) Pukose, suggested. The Committee should comprise Members who are committed. We normally see some faces in Committees and I am sorry to say that some Members look at a scandal and they want to involve themselves in it. They want to be part of the select committee. We wish to have a select committee of this House that can investigate and bring us the true results of that investigation. I support the formation of a select committee to bring to book the thieves who are scandalising this country."
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