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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Okoth",
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        "legal_name": "Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth",
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    "content": "That did not happen. The young people in Kibra did not get all the posho mills working and the maize was not delivered. I apologise to them. I apologise to the whole country because on two occasions when the CS was being questioned by this House, I rose up in good faith to defend her. I never gained anything personal from the NYS. I was working in trust for my people for a project that I thought was with good intentions. Now it turns out that my people were being used to create a situation where billions would be stolen and their rights abused. The only key argument that I want to make here today is that all the savings of the young people who worked in Kibra should be given to them so that they can have capital at hand. It is money they earned. It was taxed. Let them get the money so that they can use it to start or expand their businesses. This would make them free to work with dignity and invest like any other people. But it is time that all the people who have been mentioned here, and the amounts that have been mentioned be recovered. We have a tradition in this country of mentioning scandals but never recovering the money. We know the money was stolen. We know the banks that handled it. We know the people who took it. I think the Government at the very least should recover that money and bring it back so that it can be used to do many things. I get Constituencies Development Funds (CDF) of about Kshs90 million a year. When you are looking at the companies here that were stealing Kshs200million at a time in single contract that is money for three years that could build for us even ten new high schools so young people can 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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