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    "id": 800930,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/800930/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kigano",
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        "legal_name": "Clement Muturi Kigano",
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    "content": "The second matter that should also be a pillar is the environment. The third one that perhaps has already been talked about is unifying Kenya. I was surprised when a Member, I think the Member for Kilifi, spoke very retrogressively about Pwani na bara. We appear to have been vindicated because momentarily, Kanze Dena was given a job. But this is not a small war. Perhaps we should benchmark and borrow a leaf from the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad. Within a month, he has done what we have never done or attempted to do. Fifty judges are gone. Practically all ministers are in jail. He came to power on 10th May. Do not forget that Malaysia is a democracy and within a month, they have demonstrated that the war against corruption can be fought. We have two animals that are anti-corruption. One is the anti- corruption agency itself. It has been so moribund that I do not even remember its proper name. But that is an animal that should be dissolved straight away. The second institution which I do not want to call an animal, because it is a friendly animal, is the Judiciary. Dr. Otiende, the Member for Rarieda, and I, know that 15 years ago we were doing matters in court related to corruption. Those matters to date - 15 years after - are still pending there. Extradition matters, eight years ago - one court to another - people I do not want to mention have fought, gone to the Court of Appeal and back to and fro, that the courts now appear also to be moribund. The Hon. Chief Justice should walk the talk. Without a working Judiciary that is efficient, swift and expeditious, the war will not be won. Nevertheless, the President again has awoken two institutions that were in a long slumber, namely, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Directorate of Criminal Investigations. I commend those two institutions and hope that they will live again the talk. Thank you."
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