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    "content": "in this country we are sitting on a time bomb. A total of 12.8 million young people capable of working have no jobs. My colleague, Sen. Orengo, was here. We sounded a warning together. Why are you putting money in National Youth Service (NYS)? NYS was receiving a budget of Kshs5 billion. However, within one year, it was allocated Kshs27 billion without structures to absorb the money. You are just handing over money to people to pocket. That is why we see cynical calculations that if the amount of meat procured in NYS is to be used properly, each NYS officer will eat one and half cow every day for 365 days a year. Those are the procurements you have on record. A tyre that you can walk to Mr. Manish’s Kingsway Tyres and buy for Kshs49,000, is bought for a Kshs1 million at NYS. This is a scandal. The President should not be begging some Kenyans to stop practicing corruption, but he should be locking them up for being corrupt. Madam Temporary Speaker, I always say this and I can say it again, when I was the Minister for Foreign Affairs in this country, someone maliciously brewed what they called the “Tokyo Scandal.” I walked to President Kibaki as my President and told him, “Mr. President, I have no moral stand in that office until I am cleared of this because I do not know anything about it.” I left the office. I stayed out of office for six months. Every agency investigated and thereafter, the President called me back and said, “My Minister, they were wrong, you are innocent.” That is the only reason I agreed to go back to the office. We want to have a situation where, as Jesus said, “Those of you who have never done this, throw the first stone.” The majority of people cannot throw any stone, leave alone the first stone. They cannot throw any stone because everybody is tainted. Who worships money? It is everybody, everywhere. These Members you see here, including yourself, cannot go to your home without money in your pocket. People just get to their constituencies and create reasons and disappear because they have no money. Everybody who comes to see you wants money. Why do people want money? It is because we stifled opportunities for people to live decent lives and so they have to come to you. A man makes his wife pregnant, watches her grow for nine months and he comes to the Member of Parliament to pay for maternity fees. What kind of joke is this that we are having in this country? This is what we should be fighting for. There should be free medical care everywhere. There should be free education everywhere. I want to urge you Sen. Mwaura that setting up any committee of this House to look into these things will not yield anything. What we need to do and what we should have done is to call the agencies of governance in this country – the Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission (EACC), the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), the Controller and Auditor General, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and the Judiciary - although the Judiciary is not accountable to Parliament and so they may decline to come. You call them here and ask them, “We are giving you taxpayers’ money, what are you doing?” If you are a father in the home and a robber strikes and you are the one who climbs to the roof to wail instead of fighting back, then that house is doomed. That house will crumble. I want to urge this country, let everybody stand up. 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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