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    "id": 719843,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) H.K. Njuguna",
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        "legal_name": "Humphrey Kimani Njuguna",
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    "content": "of development. We are still talking about frustrations that we are going through at the county governments; frustrations that we are going through as a country in terms of corruption. In terms of the impact in development countrywide, we have a lot of questions. We cannot hide ourselves in the sand. I still remember this Parliament gave Kshs80 million to audit the new Constitution. We need to do a serious monitoring and evaluation so that we can see whether the intended objectives have been achieved. There is the issue of the money that is going to wastage. Out of this Kshs1.5 trillion, the EACC is on record as saying 30 per cent goes to waste because of corruption. Recently, this House even agreed to the new chairman who is a retired bishop. This shows, perhaps, that this country requires divine intervention for some of these institutions to work. Therefore, the problem is that we can have Kshs1.5 trillion which we are now appropriating between the national Government and county governments. The question we should ask ourselves is: In terms of results, is there value for our money? Right now we are registering voters in this country. All over the country, there is apathy. People do not want to register. When you try to interrogate them, they say there is nothing on the table. When you question them further, they talk about: Can you tackle corruption in this country? Perhaps, we need to interrogate some of the areas where we are failing. Article 10 of the Constitution talks about national values and principles of inclusiveness, rule of law and accountability. Every public servant must have these national values. If you are a public servant and you do not have these as part of your values, then perhaps you find issues like corruption creeping in. Chapter Six of the Constitution on leadership and integrity must be operationalised. There is a systems theory that says you can have a very intact system which is not delivering. If the system is not delivering, then you look at the environment. The environment might be contributing to the systems failure. In this country, perhaps, we need to interrogate issues of leadership to find out if it could be the contributing factor in these issues of failure. Because now we have reforms in law, institutions and policy, we must address ourselves to the continued failure in terms of corruption in this country. The way to interrogate it, we should operationalise Chapter Six of the Constitution, even if it means repealing the Leadership and Integrity Act so that the spirit of our Constitution on issues of leadership is upheld. Until we operationalise that chapter, issues of corruption and bad leadership will continue messing this country. I look forward to a time when we can jail people involved in corruption, persecute them. Perhaps if we do it, we will be able to talk about transparency, accountability and results in terms of the money which we are appropriating today. It is our concern that this Kshs1.5 trillion, once appropriated, Kenyans will want value for this money. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rest my case."
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