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    "id": 797294,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chumel",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Chumel Moroto",
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    "content": "There is nothing much we are good at. This is a talking nation. We like articulating much in writing and reading essays. If marks were to be awarded, Kenyans would be very good at that. But when it comes to implementation, we have a big problem. We can talk much. I remember when the President came here last, he brought a list of shame of corrupt people, but nothing has been done as we speak now. Maybe we can blame the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) because, I think, they are more corrupt than the culprits or people they are supposed to deal with. I come from West Pokot. It is an area which was a closed district during the colonial time. That is why it affected Turkana. The suffering of the Turkanas started from West Pokot because it was a gateway. For you to go to Turkana you have to pass through West Pokot. After the colonial time, nothing has happened with successive governments until when we realised devolution. You can now get water. With the little money given to county governments, they use it to do something. The little money MPs are given through NG-CDF they do something. I remember even the other year I drilled boreholes in some areas and constructed roads in others. You can even see that in the paper that is here today. Those things are now in West Pokot. But there is nothing going on in as far as Equalisation Fund is concerned. We say that money was allocated last year but nothing is taking place. I am a Member of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. When we had a meeting with the Cabinet Secretary (CS) up to midnight, he refused to give even the NG-CDF, but it was easy to allocate money to some corrupt areas. In fact, there is a plot in Thika which they kept talking about all the time. I asked who the man or the owner of the plot was and whose name cannot be mentioned. It is good that the other day I saw The Star Newspaper had described what was happening there."
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