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    "id": 749045,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Nyikal",
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        "legal_name": "James Nyikal",
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    "content": "Corruption has gone to the extent that it is so well illustrated in this where it takes over the structures of the Government. It behaves like the HIV virus which takes over the body system to produce more and more viruses. In our case, corruption takes over the Government system and every department is aiding or abetting and supporting theft that is going on. That is what has happened here. I support this Report because recommendations also go to show clearly that this was well orchestrated and the whole Government was involved. Look at Recommendation No.3, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations and the Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission to conduct thorough investigations. When you go through the whole list, it is a list of banks, business people and Government departments. What is then left? Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, when you go to Recommendation No.4, it says that Ann Waiguru, the former CS in the Ministry of Devolution and Planning be barred from holding public office. You are bound to laugh at it. We are in the process of investigation and yet all elements of the society are aiding her to hold public office. The people of Kirinyaga and her party itself! It is a mockery of all our systems. Recommendation No.6 says we should look at the lifestyle of top officials at the NYS. This is something we have said again and again. We have repeated it here in this Report. Those people are still living comfortably. Recommendation No.7 questions whether the Governor of the CBK could possibly not have picked what was going on. What part of the Government system is left to protect Kenyans given this scenario? The directorate in charge of the banking systems in this country has been found wanting in its activities. If you go to Recommendation No.16, on the banks that should be investigated, 30 banks in the country have been implicated in this scandal. What is left of the country? You go on and look at the companies mentioned in Recommendation No.19. You have six pages there and over 100 companies have been implicated in this scandal. It means the whole Government system and the whole society structure is involved. Corruption has become part and parcel of our daily lives. We talk about it, but we cannot do anything because everybody is involved. Nobody wants to act. Recommendation No.26 says that the National Treasury should immediately revamp the internal audit functions in MDAs. The internal auditors exist. All the payment vouchers pass through them. Even if they were to do a systems-audit in a manner to sample, all these vouchers could not have passed without anybody in the audit department picking out something amiss. I do not want to repeat what my colleagues have said. This was a major scandal, well-orchestrated and everybody was aware. I believe the Jubilee Government must take full responsibility because all those officers report directly to the Government. 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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