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    "id": 726793,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/726793/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bunyasi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "impunity. With impunity, people disregard the law and the fight against corruption becomes a real problem in future. Within our region, the indexes that are published by institutions like Transparency International (TI), have rated us low. There are countries within the region that are doing better than us. If we measure ourselves against the global scale, we are doing badly. We need a complete dedication to crack down corruption at all levels of our society, including the lowest levels, where the impact is greatest. We are discussing a report that was brought to us in March, 2016. This tells us that we have a low level of emphasis on these issues. We have taken nearly 10 months to discuss the Report. The issues in this Report should have been discussed when they were still hot. It will be of no effect if issues discussed here do not affect the people, particularly public servants. Parliament debates many issues, but we have a problem on implementation. We must tackle these issues if we hope to build a peaceful democracy. We are nearly getting paralysed with these issues. We think that we cannot do anything, and we struggle to float in a sea of difficulties. There should be a recommitment and a fresh and energised approach to completely tackle these issues. There are factors across the board, including age groups, regions, political groups and demographics. These issues cannot be assigned to one corner, but they squarely belong with the Government. Governments exist collectively for that purpose. I would like to comment on Kenya’s international relations. Recently, during the African Union Commission (AUC) elections, we suffered a setback. In every election, there is a winner and a loser, but the fact that our neighbours did not support us should teach us something. There should be serious introspection by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the presidency to try and understand why we got it so wrong. The public narrative that came out was as if it was a sure case when it was not. We should get a firm statement from the President, using the campaign of our Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs, to explain what went wrong as a way of redefining our study in international relations. In 1970s, Kenya being a young nation then was highly respected. We would not have had these UN agencies coming here if Kenya was considered a banana republic. We should look at it from the perspective that it affects the quality of lives of our people and the image of our country. It should not be demeaned and reduced to partisan discussions. Kenya has a chance of succeeding because it has a huge manpower of educated people with a good Constitution that brought democracy. As it is, we are going down."
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