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    "id": 737471,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "poor parents. My father died even without a blanket to cover himself, but he was an honest man. He never stole from anybody. His son can never be a thief. Having money is like having a cough. You cannot have money in your pocket and fail to show it. I drive one of the oldest cars around here. So, when someone comes and says there was an attempt to cover up this matter, I really wonder for whose benefit I would do that. We have recommended that Anne Waiguru and Peter Mangiti be subjected to due process. So, who are we trying to cover up for? We have recommended that due process be taken against Ben Gethi and Josephine Kabura who were nobodies but conduits in the scam; they were not the real architects. Let us not point fingers. Some of these people who accuse us--- We may have been born of poor parents but through God’s help we made it in life long before we came here. We never came here to make money. I am proud even as I leave this Parliament with God’s grace because I am contesting for the Siaya gubernatorial seat that I still live in the same houses that I used to live in here in Nairobi and also in Rarieda. I have not spent a cent of public money or the NG-CDF to improve my livelihood. I am much poorer. Let us make a rule--- It is not enough to sign forms. I have said it before that I am ready to be subjected to a lifestyle audit. Anyone who wants to represent people should not think of coming here to make money. I want anyone who wants to come to this Parliament to declare their wealth publicly. That is why as I seek to be the Governor of Siaya County, and with God’s grace I will be Governor of Siaya County, I have told the people of of that county that every year I will be submitting myself to public scrutiny so that they ask me how much wealth I had before I started serving them and how much I have as I serve them. If we cannot do that, we have to know and appreciate that there is nothing like Government money. All the money belongs to the people of Kenya. If we cannot submit ourselves to public scrutiny then we are cheating ourselves. Hypocrisy and double speak will not win the war on corruption. Let us with the same determination that we fight corruption at national level, fight it at the county level. We cannot protect thieving governors. They are using money that has been stolen from poor widows in the countryside and yet we pretend here that we are crusaders against corruption. It is all a lie and if we continue that way we will be changing the forest but the monkeys will remain the same."
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