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    "content": "You can all see that we are on the path to building a vibrant economy and a strong democracy. We want to take our relationship with you to greater heights of ambition and achievement in the future. Hon. Members, Fellow Kenyans, coming into Government in 2013, we knew that eliminating corruption would be a journey on a rocky path. We started the journey by pledging to strengthen our legal processes to wage a successful war against economic crimes. Today, we have 90 special prosecutors for economic crimes in the Judiciary and the Chief Justice has established a special Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Division of the High Court, and has appointed 13 special magistrates to deal with anti- corruption and economic crimes cases. In 2013, we pledged to make the necessary policy and legal changes to ensure that corrupt persons and companies would be barred from doing business with the Government. We have kept our promise by enacting a modern and far reaching Bribery Act, which I assented to late last year. I congratulate the captains of industry in the private sector who have championed this initiative. In 2013, we pledged to pursue and freeze assets and proceeds of corruption and economic crimes. We have established the institutions that give us the capability to trace and recover money and assets globally, which have been stolen from the public. These include the Asset Recovery Agency, the Financial Reporting Centre and the new investigations department at the Kenya Revenue Authority where I am pleased to report that successes are being reported. To date, approximately Kshs3 billion has either been recovered or preserved for recovery. This is a first in Kenya’s history. Those recovered funds will be used for social programmes; for example, the recently recovered funds from the Smith and Ouzman case have been used for the purchase of ambulances. Going forward, we are creating a framework of how recovered funds will be used in a transparent and accountable manner. We have chosen an approach that prevention is better than cure. Cash payments, inefficiency and delays in service delivery breed corrupt practices. We have, therefore, invested in making service delivery more efficient and accessible through the Huduma Centres, the E- Citizen, iTax, land registry services and other digitized platforms. Indeed, The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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