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    "id": 801046,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Angatia",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ayub Savula Angatia",
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    "content": "to dissolve the Cabinet and put in serious characters who can advise him on how to run the country. At the moment, the President is running the show alone. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I also suggest that we cannot put prosecution powers under one office, with regard to what has happened in the National Youth Service, the Kenya Pipeline and other institutions. I will bring a Motion before this House so that we amend the procedure on prosecution to give the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) some powers. This is my proposal. I will bring it under a Bill as an amendment to the Director of Public Prosecutions Bill so that the Directorate of Criminal Investigation investigates and prosecutes cases directly and directs court cases where suspects are involved in corruption worth below Kshs500 million. For cases between Kshs500 million and Kshs1 billion, let us give them to the EACC to prosecute directly instead of all those files going to the Director of Public Prosecutions. Then, the Office of the DPP should handle files of Kshs1 billion and above. This way, we will be helping the Kenyan society to fight corruption. Lumping together all those files in the Office of the DPP is improper. He has no legal capacity. The budget provision in that office is too limited, yet we have two other major offices – the EACC and the DCI which can assist in that area. We also have another problem in this country. I sit in the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing. Money allocated to repair roads alone is only Kshs18 billion. If you divide Kshs18 billion between 290 constituencies, we will be looking at less than Kshs15 million per constituency. What will Kshs15 million do with all these rains and emergency factors? We need also to amend the National Government Constituencies Development Fund Act to increase the amount of money allocated to Members of Parliament so that they can do roads under emergency because of the effect of the rain. Lastly, it is a sad day for this country. Sugar has landed in Mombasa; 200,000 metric tonnes of sugar from Brazil which is a non-COMESA country. Who cleared these imports? The price of sugar has dropped from Kshs3950 to Kshs3200 today. It is because of cartels. Brazil is not a COMESA member country. It is supposed to meet an industrial shortfall of less than 150,000 metric tonnes of sugar annually. Who gave the permit to these importers? They are killing the sugar sector."
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