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    "id": 802867,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mwangi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 75,
        "legal_name": "Ephraim Mwangi Maina",
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    "content": "Thank you Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support Sen. Nyamunga’s Statement. It is wrong to import vehicles from South African when they can be made here. Corruption has been made official in this country to the extent that we may be about to build an office and say that, that is where corruption will be done. We have heard of people who have stolen Kshs9.9 billion from National Youth Service (NYS). One wonders how Kshs9 billion can be siphoned out of NYS without the knowledge of the Cabinet Secretary and the officers from the Ministry such as the Principal Secretaries. It is time that those people who are heading institutions where corruption is perpetrated are arrested. Let us not only arrest the Director of NYS. Let us bring everybody to book. Let us arrest those heading those institutions. Corruption can only be fought from above. We cannot fight it from a messenger’s position. Unless we do that, we will sing this song for a long time and nothing much will happen. We have local car assemblies in Kenya, why would somebody dream of importing buses from South Africa? We need to create jobs in this country because our young people do not have jobs. We have decided we want to get buses and instead of purchasing them from the local car assemblies, we want to purchase them from South Africa. Most of the offices in Kenya today are used as conduits to siphon money to some destination. This Senate needs to stop that. We have people who are importing bananas, carrots, onions and other fruits yet our farmers have no market for their produce whereas we are importing from South Africa what can be produced locally in Kenya. We should 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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