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    "id": 749069,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/749069/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Nyongesa",
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        "legal_name": "Paul Nyongesa Otuoma",
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    "content": "are in support of us, but cartels are used to corrupt and obtain everything through corruption. They have infiltrated some of our parties and have done the kind of things they did in some areas with some of us going through sham nominations. This was not just in the ODM, but I believe it equally happened in Jubilee where in a whole region, there is currently a conspiracy theory that there were some tall trees that were supposed to be cut down. When your hedge overgrows, you trim it. I have never seen a process where you trim tall trees. People want trees to grow tall so that they can get timber. We trim hedges so that they look neat. Unfortunately, with our brothers in the Mount Kenya region, there was trimming of tall trees. If you go back, you find that these were all cartels of corruption that were just mutating in different forms. I am not saying that this happened just in central, but I have been a victim of corruption in a party that I spent a lot of my youthful energy building. All of a sudden, thinking that we are going through a democratic process that we have been fighting for, you find that other parameters are used. Hon. Gikaria, I know you are lucky you are not part of Mt. Kenya although you try to be more Mt. Kenya than the people from Mt. Kenya are. You are more of a Nakuru diaspora person. Coming back to the NYS, the institutions that we have created like the Anti-Banking Fraud Unit, the Financial Reporting Centre must carry out their mandate. Some of these institutions are not carrying out their mandate. This is the biggest problem. As someone was saying here, Kshs60 million weighs almost 60 kilogrammes. How can you withdraw this kind of money and carry it away, yet there is the Financial Reporting Centre which has not reported anything? It has not reported anything. Most of these scandals within the Government are perpetuated by the very same institutions that we create."
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