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    "id": 878014,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/878014/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13184,
        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "If anybody is found culpable of corrupt deals for maize, they should be charged with extreme violence and all other vices that corruption comes up with. I know a lot of venom has been directed to the DCI and Office of the DPP), but I think this country must realize that we cannot fight corruption just through criminal consequences. We must fight corruption at the gate. Today, I am appealing to Kenyans, let us provide sanctions ourselves by voting out corrupt individuals. Let us take it into our own hands through the vote and make sure that we do not wait for the DPP and DCI to only use criminal consequences. By the time we rely on criminal consequences, it is, probably, too late because the wealth has transferred hands many times and it is very hard to tell. Perhaps that would be used to also corrupt the investigators. Kenyans need to hold each other accountable by asking the hard questions, what role can we play as citizens of this country to sanction and use the power of our vote to vote out the people that we have seen are really connected to this. Corruption is systemic. It is an institutional aspect and the capture of our institutions and the people who control them is the costly form of corruption. This is why we are going round in circles because our institutions have been captured by corruption and the corrupt class, even including ourselves as politicians. We observe ourselves speaking for others as though we are owned by somebody them."
}