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    "content": "Parliament. That list had names of Members who had been accused of various things. The correct status of the nation on the question of corruption by the President should have been how many of those cases have been prosecuted successfully. The court ruled that the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) Secretariat acted outside the law in producing a list to the President when there was no commission. There is no reason to whitewash the EACC. We should castigate them for whitewashing corruption, for carrying out a witch-hunt on people and for being used wrongly for prosecuting, naming people and defending them. That is the correct status of corruption. The President was bold enough to say that it is inconceivable that people who were employed recently in the counties can start building homes. The correct status of the nation is that the money we sent to counties has become a pocket for people to enrich themselves. It is not enough to recover the assets. The only way to punish corruption is by jailing people. The only way to make sure na liwe funzo, like they say, is to make sure that there is punishment for these ills. People who have not done their work should be told to do so. The statement made by the President about the Judiciary is not correct because, recently, Pastor Ng’ang’a was acquitted of the crime of speeding and negligent act of killing a person. Would you blame the magistrate because there was no evidence in court? That is not correct. The problem is with the prosecution and the EACC. The people who have let us down continuously are the agents that investigate corruption because they are either being used by people to fight people politically by naming people wrongly or, alternatively, they are covering up corruption. We must call it as it is. This county is paying lip service to corruption and we are going nowhere. My view is that the President must give us a correct status report as opposed to the recovery. If Kshs500 million was recovered, who is the person we recovered the money from? Smith and Ouzman and his son are serving a jail term and money was confiscated from them because they bribed Kenyans for what is famously known as “Chickengate.” Those fellows in Kenya are walking around, issuing statements and nothing has happened to them. That is not a status of corruption but it is called whitewashing corruption. I noticed in Paragraph 15 that whoever was writing the speech for the President made a typographical error. The correct figure under Paragraph 15 is Kshs302 billion which is shareable revenue and conditional grants in Paragraph 16 is Kshs372 billion. I was a little disappointed that they allowed the President to have a speech with errors. They should know better! Concerning the question of the status of remitting money under Article 203, my fellow colleague Senators, this issue has not been properly addressed. The fact is that under Article 203, we should share revenue according to the latest audited accounts but they base on accounts of 2013/2014. Are you happy, my fellow colleague Senators, that we send money to counties based on a figure of Kshs963 million when the already existing figures are between Kshs1.3 billion and Kshs1.6 billion? We have lost almost 30 per cent of what should go to counties. The correct position on the status of the nation is that there is somebody somewhere in Parliament who is not doing their job and that is a disservice to the people of Kenya. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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