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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have looked at some reports which show how the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) was brought down. The names of the people who brought NSSF down are young people who are politicians. They walk the streets of Kenya. Some of them have been in positions of power or borrowed power. To date, despite recommendations of Parliament that these people should be jailed or prosecuted, nothing has happened. I want to ask my bold friend Dr. Khalwale, to put recommendations to this Parliament because Parliament now has teeth, on what this country must do with the Controller and Auditor-General’s Report. I was once in Stockholm and I visited the office of the Controller and Auditor-General. They had the same problems that we have. What did they do? They forced that office to sit within Parliament and report to Parliament directly. I want to say here today that part of the problem is that the Controller and Auditor-General, seems to want to report to the Executive. The Controller and Auditor-General is like a slave of the Executive. That is why it must be that person who is close to the people in power. That can never give checks and balances. What Parliament gets is that which the Controller and Auditor-General wants us to get. However, if the Controller and Auditor-General sat within Parliament like he does in Stockholm or the Westminster, then Parliament would have control of public expenditure as a watchdog. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, you may wish to know that in the last few years, it happened before our eyes, the monster of Anglo Leasing was unveiled as we watched. Ministers walked out of offices but the same Ministers were returned back to offices. Until today, Anglo Leasing does not talk or creep on the streets of Nairobi. You hear about Anglo Leasing in London and Washington. The people who have spoken about it fear for their lives. Talk of one gentleman called Githongo who was the whistle blower. I have personally met him. When he tells you about Anglo Leasing, the perpetrators are here. It therefore, means that the work of Parliament is really not taken seriously by the Executive. The Executive must just wake up particularly in light of the new Constitution. You cannot hide information from people and people who do wrong must be punished. We will then give our people a new beginning. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, our corporations have come down; the NSSF, the NHIF, have all collapsed. If you go to the Ministry of Medical Services or the Ministry of Water and Irrigation, the problem is the same. Even now, there is the so called Pipeline Maximization Project which is meant to improve the flow of petroleum from the coast to Eldoret. It is bigger than Anglo Leasing but because it has not been looked into by the Controller and Auditor-General, it may be friendly to the people in power; the Committee will look at it three years or four years from now. It is happening and people are raising issues but nobody is listening. It is a shame that nothing is happening. We have spoken. I know my good friend Bonny, talks about Triton. He has talked about it and we always talk about it. It is a scandal which is happening. A mega thing happened all these years and we know those who have done it in the rumour mills. We should have zero tolerance to corruption, particularly on mega corruption. It is very important that we, as leaders in this country, guide this country into a new beginning. There is no country where people are told to go and bid to sell a pen. All of us know how much a biro pen costs in the kiosk. But this is the only country where a biro pen that costs Kshs10 can be sold for Ksh50, Kshs500 or even Kshs1,000. They say that you must go through competitive bidding. There is even a sadder story. When we said that the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) money was supposed to be"
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