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    "id": 800105,
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    "speaker_name": "May 31, 2018 SENATE DEBATES 31 Sen. Wetangula",
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    "content": "Thank you Madam Temporary Speaker, for an opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I salute Sen. Mwaura for bringing the Motion which Sen. Farhiya and also I wanted to bring but it is good that he brought it ahead of us. If there is anything that must be declared a national disaster in this country, it is corruption. Extraordinary problems require extraordinary measures to solve them. Corruption has reached an extraordinary level. The country is bleeding and hurting. Yesterday the Governor of Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) said that our external borrowing has reached a limit and we cannot borrow anymore. At Kshs4.6 trillion, the national debt can only burst the economy. This country has been bedeviled by one incident of corruption after another. The National Youth Service (NYS) graduated some suspects to high office. That is a big shame! Somebody joked the other day that if the previous one was in office for one year and graduated to where she is, the next one might graduate to become the president. I agree with Sen. Mwaura for tabulating the legal framework we have in fighting corruption. There is no shortage of law. The shortage we have in this country is the will to fight corruption. When Dr. Patrick Loch Otieno (PLO) Lumumba was the head of the Kenya Anti- Corruption Commission (KACC) and resigned in a huff, he said something very important; that when he was appointed to that office, he thought he had been appointed to fight corruption but he quickly learnt that he was only appointed to appear to fight corruption and not to fight corruption. That is why he was shown the door unceremoniously because he went beyond appearance. Madam Temporary Speaker, because of limitation of time, allow me to look at the issue of the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB). I laud the Cabinet Secretary, Mr. Kiunjuri for having been honest yesterday before the committee. The NCPB, by its framework and foundation, knows farmers in every region. Not anybody can just turn up with a briefcase and say they are a farmer and they want to deliver produce. In Bungoma which is my county, Kshs534 million was paid to farmers. When you look at the description of the farmers, you will cry like Sen. (Dr.) Kabaka did on the Floor of this House. In Bungoma, there is not a single farmer who can talk of farming 200 acres of land. We do not have land because of population. You will find such kind of farms in Uasin Gishu, Trans Nzoia, Nakuru and a few other places like Laikipia. A Mary Wanjiku, describing herself as a farmer, delivered maize that she harvested on 800 acres of land in Bungoma. Another farmer called Mary Wanjiru Ndiwa delivered maize she farmed on 334 acres of land in Bungoma. Another one called Benard Mwangi Kimani delivered maize having farmed on 400 of land in Bungoma. Another one called Mary Wasamwe delivered maize that she farmed on 800 acres of land in Bungoma. Another one called Lucy Nduta Kihara delivered maize she farmed on 230 acres of land in Bungoma. My nephew here, who comes close to Bungoma, knows that you cannot get anybody in Bungoma farming more than 100 acres of land. The NCPB is taking public money and giving it to people who are fraudulently passing off as farmers. Instead of such people being arrested for giving false information to a person employed to serve the 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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