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    "id": 749077,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kimaru",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Mutahi Kimaru",
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    "content": "As we lambast those who were involved, this House must also take audit of itself. We have several Members of this august House whose relatives are involved. One Member had his father-in-law, wife and sister getting benefits from these fake projects. Many Members of Parliament are beneficiaries of this graft. So, as we talk of the Waigurus and the Kaburas out there, we must also audit ourselves. If any action is to be taken, let us be sincere. Let everybody be accountable, including those in this House who were involved. The other day, we heard that politics is not a profession where you make money and become rich. Be that as it may, why should the ordinary folk work very hard? Is it right for the politician to be poor? For a select group, politics is supposed to make you super rich. All that money was stolen. We had people walking away in a billion shillings in a single day. You can imagine what a billion shillings can do in this country. You could translate that into 1,000 classrooms that would cost, say, Kshs1 million per classroom. We heard of money that was purportedly utilised in constituencies, but in the real sense, there is nothing to show for it. In my constituency, we got graders to construct roads. We had to fuel and repair for them. We also had to pay allowances to the personnel who were present. The day we ran out of money, the graders were taken away. I remember using my own money at some point. If we would not have financed the machinery and personnel, then, no work would have been done yet this House passed a whole Kshs28 billion in one financial year to cater for that work. I support the Report of the PAC. I hope it will not be another report that will just gather dust on shelves. The Committee on Implementation, the Director of Public Prosecutions and all those who are involved should make sure that the work that this Committee has done does not go to waste. Let us, as a country, for once realize that stealing from the Government and the people of Kenya is punishable. Let it not be the order of the day that you can steal from the Government, walk away, become a hero and then you are elevated to the next level. Stern action needs to be taken against all these thieves."
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