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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "particular land that affected the life and interest or education of young people who were students in the particular schools involved. The public there is waiting to find out what we will do with this Report. The Report will also enable us, in this new dispensation or new climate where we are saying there are no sacred cows---- I think now I have the confidence that unlike in the past, there is no sacred cow. We need to go an extra mile to ensure that what the Government is currently doing in fighting graft and grand corruption is carried on without fear of favor. Certainly, the recommendations that have been made by this Committee are matters that cannot be wished away and the students in these schools will expect not only a full inquiry but also action to be taken by the responsible institutions of Government. I also hope that the timelines given in this Report, and they are very reasonable, I think they were made on the basis that if this Report is passed, then these recommendations should be implemented or be attained within the timelines that have been given in the recommendations. Those are very reasonable timelines. There are also recommendations to do with ourselves that certain committees of Parliament should follow certain matters that are clear from the Report within certain timelines. At the end of the day, and my final remarks is that, if you elect to be a public officer in a democracy which has a constitution like ours, with Article 10 as it is, and also you have the Chapter on Leadership and Integrity, Chapter 12, which deals with the principles of public service, you should expect that your life will never be easy because you know whenever such reports come out and somebody’s name appears, then it suddenly takes a very different perspective. People begin to take positions which are ethnic and parochial. For us to deal with this animal called graft, if there are any suspicions or inquiries being made on anybody who is in the public service, including myself, public officers should be the first to offer themselves to that process of inquiry. That way, at the end of the day, we can then be confident that we have people in public offices who are ready to live by the dictates of the law of the land, and ensure that we have strong institutions which will do justice to the people."
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