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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Korir",
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        "legal_name": "Wesley Kipchumba Korir",
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    "content": "now see her as a hero and are giving her the responsibility of stealing more money. Then where are we going as a country? There is a saying that says: “Monkey see monkey do”. If we cannot prosecute and punish the people who steal money from this nation, what will our children learn from it? That is because our children will do what we as parents do. That is why we say: “Monkey see monkey do”. They are seeing what we are doing. When we vote, they see what kind of people we vote for. That is the same thing they will do because they have seen us do it. I am asking the Kenyan citizens wherever they are: “You have been given a responsibility to elect your leaders who can represent you well. Do not elect thieves.” I hope that the people of Kirinyaga will read this Report by the Committee. It should be in every library in Kirinyaga, schools and kikuyu radio stations. Every radio station should be reading this thing to their people, so that they can know the person they are about to elect as a governor is a very big thief; the orchestrator of a very big scandal that the Jubilee Government will be remembered for. If I was the President of this country, Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta, I would make sure that she does not receive the certificate. That is because people will not remember Waiguru, but they will remember NYS and Uhuru Kenyatta for it. It is the same way when we talk about Goldenberg, we remember Mr. Moi; Anglo Leasing, Mr. Kibaki and when we now talk about NYS, it is Uhuru Kenyatta. Hon. Speaker, as a Member of the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare, that NYS is part of our responsibility. The first time this thing came to our Committee, I stood up and said that what we were doing as a country is not the right thing. When the money and the budget of NYS came in, whether we accept it or not, we live in a country of vultures. Whenever there is meat, vultures run towards it. What we did as a House and a Government was to put meat in NYS and all the vultures ran to NYS. That is the first mistake we did. NYS did not have structures. When it started, it was a system to train young men. It was like a military training. It did not have capacity to do roads and all the necessary things to be able to undertake what we were telling them to do. I proposed during that time that it would have been well to leave NYS as a training institute and then, if we want roads to be built, we put money for roads in the Ministry of Roads so that NYS can do the training and then send and second the people they have trained into the Ministry of Roads and let it run the programs. If they wanted to drill wells, there is the ministry of Water and Irrigation that has the capacity and system ready in place. They would have trained the youths and second them into the Ministry of Water and Irrigation to do the dams and all that. If they wanted to do the cleaning program that they are doing, they would have been seconded into the relevant ministry to be able to do those things. What would have happened is that we would have distributed money into different ministries and there would be no vultures running into one ministry. However, we made a mistake by putting everything into one thing. If you go to America where I lived for a very long time and I had friends, people were leaving America for Kenya to come and steal at NYS. Our kids will pay for the money that was stolen. That is because this country is financed by the money we borrowed from China and other countries, and not by domestic money. So, we borrowed the money and it went to Waiguru and her friends. That means my kids in future and the people of Cherangany are going to pay for her mistake and for the things that she did in the Ministry and NYS. I hope that we will learn because a nation that does not will regret in the future. Our past will judge us. What we do right now as a nation, our kids in future will suffer because of it. I hope that this nation, the people of this country and the people of Kirinyaga, will do the right thing when it comes to 8th August to make sure that a thief, an orchestrator of theft in this The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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