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    "content": "country is to be a slay queen. All you need to do is to catwalk around some officials in the office and show your credentials other than your papers and you are given the tender to supply air like the new face of corruption in the name Anne Ngirita from Naivasha, who applies lipstick in court. I pity the person who will be the President of this country in the year 2022 because he will not manage it. The Central Bank of Kenya Governor has told us that our debts are unsustainable. This is not a new song. During my tenure as a Member of the Committee on Budget Appropriation of the National Assembly, we kept on telling Henry Rotich that our debts are unsustainable but he would tell us that Japan had 200 per cent on the debt to GDP ratio. He would also mention other countries but he forgets that Kenya does not have such liquidity. Our private sector development is still low, so where will he finance his budget from? If people are allocating budgets for projects of their own choice for them to go and plunder, then we have a serious problem in our budget making process. I would want to implore upon the Presidency to seriously consider two things; one, he should create the office of Budget Management in the Presidency and make it effective because the National Treasury has failed to be a true custodian of fiscal policy. Secondly, Parliament is the holder of the public purse thus it must be allowed to execute its mandate even when Parliament is the sponsor of the person occupying the Presidency for the majority party must also be able to execute its mandate in terms of oversight. We started very well in 2013 but I can report that most of those powers have been clawed back. Under the edges of Article 114 about consultation with the National Treasury, we have to have safeguards. Parliament must not act as a mortician where we come to parade people who are suspects and thieves in public office after they have already committed the crime. To fight corruption, Parliament must have an up to date audit for us not to revisit corruption that happened three or four years ago that is water under the bridge. This is something that we must do as a Parliament. We must also ensure that when we declare our wealth in the forms under the Public Officer Ethics Act, it should be declared public. There is no need of declaring your wealth then you hide it in some locker somewhere in some big office. We need to amend the law so that we are able to declare our wealth and those forms become public documents for us to interrogate the amount of money that Sen. Mwaura had when he came to Parliament vis-à-vis what he has when he is leaving. If we do not do so, the declaration becomes a charade. There are times when we are told by the Speaker that we have not declared our wealth and that is when one quickly fills it. It is just a question of formality where one ticks the box. Another key issue that we need to consider in the fight against corruption is legalizing the issue of lobbying fee and tips. It is being done in the United States of America (USA) where one knows that there is a lobbying fee of this percent that needs to be paid and it is legitimate. That will help one to know that waiters are given tips thus they have to give it to them instead of having the waiters hanging around and treating one well to get it for that is the essence of corruption, kitu kidogo mentality. That is something that we need to consider. The reason as to why 30 percent of our monies are taken is because the 30 percent is divided amongst three people equally. 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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