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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve",
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        "legal_name": "Getrude Musuruve Inimah",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, thank you for giving me this opportunity to add my voice to this Motion. I want to start by commending Sen. Mwaura for coming up with this Motion which has come at the right time. I believe that the Senate will ensure it sees the light of day and corruption is brought to an end. Kenya ratified the United Nations Convention with regard to corruption and it was the first country in the world to sign that Convention. If Kenya was the first country to sign that convention in 2003 that signature is fully loaded and we should have walked the talk from 2003. Whenever we say that corruption is cancerous, I wonder whether it is benign or malignant. When we talk of something being cancerous, if it is malignant then the whole nation is dead because there is no cure. However, if it is benign - and I hope that is the case - it means that it is localised and can easily be gotten rid of. I hope and believe that the cancer of corruption in this country is benign and we need to see how to uproot it Madam Temporary Speaker, we have different levels of corruption. We have corruption at the high level, low level and middle level. Corruption is indeed ailing this country because it is retrogressing our economic development. We make three steps ahead and about 30 steps back. It is time we, as leaders, embrace what the President has said. I really empathise with the President’s statement. During his Address to Parliament, he humbled himself and asked leaders to be committed to serving. When the President talks about commitment to service, he reminds us directly or indirectly that we should embrace Chapter Six of the Constitution so that we are counted as leaders who can stand with our people. Many statements that come on the Floor of this House come as a result of some element of corruption that needs to be addressed. We have been talking about many issues in this Senate, for instance, the issue of farmers. When farmers in the village are 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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