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    "id": 866487,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nambale, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Sakwa Bunyasi",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "I see a very beautiful law that has been set up to give a new structure to the NYS. The biggest gift to Kenyans would not have been a new law. I do not think it is timely, in my regard, and it is almost irrelevant. I think what would have been a good gift to the people of Kenya are convictions of the NYS 1 scandal and the progress report of the NYS 2 scandal, so that we can know that the looters are being taken care of going forward. However, the looters are still at large. We do not even know whether under our eyes, looting is still going on at the NYS. After the NYS 1, despite the real scandalous acts that took place like carrying Kshs80 million or Kshs60 million in cash, we know that Kshs1 million is about a kilogramme and a half, so, they must have used wheelbarrows, pick-ups or other means of carrying that money. Who thought we would have NYS 2? What is there to stop NYS 3? That is where the problem lay. It is not in providing for a new Bill. I have read through the Bill and it does not, in any way, tell us what was weak in the legal framework of the previous NYS Act at all. There might have been organisational weaknesses in terms of the fact that, for example, it was serving purely partisan interests. You could not get the NYS service men with their equipment to come to your constituency if you did not belong to the ruling party. That was a big decision that required to be made. I know there were some exceptions because they had to pledge loyalty. Even though they did not end up joining that side, we need to have a service that is patriotic to the nation and not to individuals. I do not see any improvement, in fact, in making the service go under the purview of the Cabinet Secretary. It ought to be an independent service like Griffiths did in the old day. It ought to recruit all our youth across the country, graduates of primary school, high school or university because this is an inculcation of values as has been cited here. All these are beautiful things, but to regain confidence in the NYS, we need to get convictions for the NYS 1 and 2. This problem did not occur because of lack of money. In fact, if there was no increased budgetary allocation, maybe we would not have heard about NYS 1 and 2. The allocation was increased to Kshs26 billion. For those who might have forgotten, at that time, this was about what the entire parliamentary system set up - the third arm of the Government - was receiving. This was a huge allocation. It was a virtue preserve of a few people essentially to tap into and get money. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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