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    "content": "‘hug shake.’ We need to ensure that one of the agendas that benefit the handshake apart from unity, development and peace, must include the fight against corruption. Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to thank the Rt. Hon. Prime Minister for what he said today. The fight against corruption is one of the biggest agendas of the hug shake and handshake as opposed to what some of us have been opposing concerning the handshake. Going forward, we, as elected leaders from the grassroots level to the highest office, want to tell the Presidency, as the President told us in the State of the nation Address, that one of the biggest challenges in implementing the Big Four Agenda is corruption. We want to see that goodwill. I have heard Sen. Wetangula saying that we should summon some of these agencies. The Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights has summoned the DPP, EACC and Commission on Administrative Justice (CAJ), among other agencies that are tasked with fighting corruption in this country to appear before our Committee on Wednesday. They need to tell us what they are doing as agencies that are funded by the taxpayers in fighting corruption in this country. That is why we want to challenge them; if they cannot fight corruption, they should resign and allow other Kenyans of goodwill, good moral standing and integrity to serve. We, as a Committee, will work very hard to give this Senate the necessary direction in terms of legislative and other policy proposal changes to ensure that we move forward. When the Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture and Irrigation, Mr. Mwangi Kiunjuri, gave the names of the farmers, it was shocking because some of us are small scale farmers not large, but that somebody who is not a farmer would be given priority over a hardworking farmer was unthinkable. Some of us represent farmers and if there is someone who is suffering like Jesus Christ, then it is a farmer. There is no subsidy and the cartels are waiting for nine months for them to harvest their maize just for them to come like hyenas. It is sad that the genuine farmers continue to suffer. When Sen. (Prof.) Kamar brought a resolution of a meeting from Eldoret farmers the other day, I said that we need to be careful because when farmers stop farming, the country will go hungry and people will start eating each other because there will be no food. A healthy nation is a wealthy nation and when there is no food, the nation is not healthy, thus they cannot create wealth. I hope that the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) scandal will be addressed. The Cabinet Secretary (CS) was afraid to name the big fish and we hope that the Holy Spirit will visit him during this long weekend for him to give us the name of the big fish who has been troubling and fighting farmers in this country by Monday. My challenge to the President and other leaders, and it is good that the Senate Minority Leader is a close confidant of the former Prime Minister, is that we should have a concerted effort to fight corruption. Let us come out strongly and fight corruption as much as possible for us to have something that we can bequeath to posterity. When we allow corruption to thrive, it will destroy the social fabric of this nation and everything that we have ever worked on. As we discuss the national corruption and institutionalization of corruption, we should also look at counties. Counties are now the other target of the cartels that we are talking about and they have even been crawling into my county. The Governor of my 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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