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    "id": 800170,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mwaura",
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. First of all, I thank all the Senators who have made robust contributions, especially Sen. Halakhe and Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve who are present. As I make my concluding observations, I want to contrast two countries. The first country is Malaysia. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad was the father of the nation who was in office for many years. Thereafter, other prime ministers were elected and served diligently. However, when Najib Razak was elected as the prime minister, he stole a whopping Kshs70 billion. This made people very angry and during the last elections, they elected Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad back to power at the age of 94 years. Within one week or seven days, he was able to get back USD50 billion. That is the essence of political will. Madam Temporary Speaker, in Kenya recently I was at a social joint. I came across some young man who addressed me as Sen. Mwaura. I asked him, “Who are you? He replied, “I am Kabura’s son.” The guy was wearing bling bling and had a big vehicle. He was very proud to say that he was associated with Josephine Kabura. I am also reminded of a video that is circulating in the social media of a Luhya lady who is urging his fellow Luhyas to also enjoy corruption, asking them what they are doing in high offices when everybody else is stealing. Really, it has sunk that low. You are asking members of your community to steal so that you can protect each other. As you know, that culture of ‘it is our time to eat.’ When we had the first maize scandal and the Triton Oil scandal, Kenyans were so pessimistic saying that leaders were eating their maize and then swallowing it with their oil. This is quite interesting; t unakula mahindi na tunateremsha na mafuta. The Chicken- Gate Scandal associated with a young man called Trevor Oyombra; even the name Oyombra means to eat or the way you would tear apart some chicken. Madam Temporary Speaker, this country has witnessed so much corruption. It is so much that even in this same Parliament Members of Parliament are there for hire. You just need to see some few people around and then your agenda will pass. This House has just become another rubberstamp. Going forward, I will quote one of the people who commented on this Motion – namely Hilary Kosgei. He said, “Mwaura, why do you want to burn the bridges of corruption and yet we also want to use the same to come up just like you people in politics?” Most of our elected leaders or a good number - let me not generalize that - are products of corruption. This is in terms of the money they get from their former employment opportunities and the way we conduct our party primaries. There is corruption in the way in which people colluded with the officials of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). That is why some election results were nullified. We have seen a situation where the best qualification you may have in this 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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