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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mbui",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Mbui",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity. I found the front seats empty and I did not want to be lonely sitting there alone, so I had to join my colleagues. I want to take this opportunity to join my colleagues in thanking the President for a very elaborate Speech given to this House. Listening to him keenly yesterday, I realised that he really does have what it takes to lead this nation. I spent the last five years being one of the biggest critics, of course, because I was in the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD) party and lately in the National Super Alliance (NASA) party, but after the handshake I have taken time to listen to the other side and suddenly I realise there is quite a bit of substance that is with this gentleman who is our President. Yesterday, the President came to fulfil his mandate to the nation. He had to discuss with us national values and principles of governance, also our progress in meeting international obligations and, of course, the state of national security. Within his Speech, I picked a few points that I thought are of importance. The first one was that he did talk about the fight against corruption. He said that he would like to see a situation where we fight, as a country, those big fish that keep getting away with our money. I was happy to note that the Government has actually recovered Kshs0.5 billion from proceeds that had been gained by corrupt cartels in the country. But I was taken aback because we do know that the amount of money we lose as a nation is too much. So, the Kshs0.5 billion seems like a small drop. The Ministry of Health alone in the last financial year lost Kshs5 billion. It was in the public domain. That time I was in the Departmental Committee on Health. We tried to investigate the scandal. It is shocking that even as we talk now, the clinics that were bought at Kshs1 billion are still lying at the port of Mombasa. They have not been supplied. There is no The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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