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    "id": 748820,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mulu",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Benson Makali Mulu",
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    "content": "We have visited some countries where this Committee can really bite. When there is need to bite, they will bite immediately and the biting will be so severe that people will realise there is a committee. One of my prayers to this House is that in the 12th Parliament, PAC needs to be given powers so that when things like this come to this House and such recommendations are adopted by the House--- This will ensure that Members of Parliament who are so hardworking like Hon. Gumbo do not think that what they are doing is in vain. Look at the time and the resources used to have this Report. It will be very unfortunate that at the end of the day, this Report becomes another book in the shelves of Parliament. Time has come when these Reports were taken seriously. The other thing we are talking about is corruption. Corruption has such deep roots in this country to an extent that we put an archbishop to be in charge of the EACC. I do not know whether we will be able to make use of the prayers and the laws we have passed in this House so that we can tackle the big animal called “corruption”. Were it not for corruption, we would not be talking about this. Look at about Kshs800 million that was stolen. If we gave each youth in this country about Kshs100, 000 out of those millions to start a small kiosk or business somewhere in this country, how many youths would have benefited? Yesterday I watched my colleague, Ken Okoth of Kibra Constituency making a contribution on this Report. I could see the pain in him when he said that the youth from Kibra were misused. They worked hard to ensure that they do not go for handouts but even after such hard work, they were not paid. To date, they have not received their earnings. I do not imagine such a group of people in Kibra praying for individuals who are mentioned in this Report to succeed in their lives. They must be cursing them. I can tell you that in the long run, if you do bad things to the disadvantaged, marginalised and disabled, you will pay for it one day. I believe that the Almighty God will make sure that these characters are punished even if they are not punished by the laws of this land. With those few remarks, I want to support the adoption of this Report, and say that the recommendations must be implemented immediately."
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