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    "id": 841526,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I always drove in one car. However today, Cabinet Secretaries have one car in front, in the middle and another one behind them; that is consumption. If you look at the levels of change that we see that cost money, when we have austerity measures – like we must have today – why would the President stand up and say that we are changing the police uniform? How much will that cost considering that we have close to 100,000 policemen in this country? Changing their uniform means spending money, which would have been put into something different. Madam Temporary Speaker, what is ailing this country are mis-priorities. I know that the Government is committed – and they have said it - to fighting corruption. However, if the war against corruption was taken to its logical limits, the amount of money that has been lost, according to statistics from the Government itself is that in every annual budget, one-third is lost to corruption. It means that in a budget of Kshs3 trillion, we are losing about a trillion to corruption through inflated procurement, outright theft, and misappropriation of funds. We have just been quarrelling this afternoon on an The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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