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    "id": 878198,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ochillo-Ayacko",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 347,
        "legal_name": "Ochilo George Mbogo Ayacko",
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    "content": "If you take, for instance, the institution of the Senate, the National Assembly and our committees that are supposed to be specialised in those areas, there is no mention and indication that resources are being availed to ensure that we are able to match the pace at which corruption is rising. Corruption in this country is rising at a meteoric pace, and is likely to consume all of us. If you want to know if that is true and that it is on-going, look at how it is hitting headlines everywhere. In fact, offices that are intended or are supposed to fight it have chosen to use twitter and other media outlets because they have not been sufficiently funded. It is my wish and it was my hope that this budget would make sufficient provision for resources that would strengthen institutions like Parliament, the Auditor-General’s office, the Controller of Budget’s office, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Authority (EACC), the Judiciary and other institutions so that corruption is not just hot air. My good friend, the Senator of Nandi County, has been chiding the Director of Criminal Investigation (DCI) and the EACC for doing it on Twitter . The question is: What money have we given the EACC and the DCI for them to quit doing it on Twitter and to actually do it properly as we expect them to do it? What amount of money have we given the office of the Auditor-General for his office to keep pace with the runaway corruption when it comes to auditing matters that are current? What have we done to the institution of Senate in terms of resourcing it? What have we done for the good Senators, including our Mr. Deputy Speaker, for them to get prompt briefs on the happenings in the counties? We want to give them more money, and that is attractive, but what are we doing to ensure that there is no temptation to pocket the lots of money that we want to give to them? What have we done to ensure that the monies are properly utilised for our benefit? That is what has been glaringly left out of this BPS. I come from Migori County where we farm things such as sugarcane, tobacco, maize and many other crops and we also fish. The Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries made an observation that there is very little money allocated for research. We cannot handle agriculture casually as it is being handled in this BPS. In agriculture, there are two areas that we must keep sight of. First, we must ensure that our farmers have a guaranteed market and price for the crops that they grow or whatever they produce. Otherwise, agriculture degenerates into peasantry and becomes a way of devolving poverty and misery. It is important for us to ensure and this budget captures a system that has a guaranteed market for the produce of our people. When that is done, we will avoid scenarios where sugarcane farmers cry to the national Government, visit politicians home or put pressure on politicians to talk to the national Government to get money to pay for sugarcane that was collected by the factories or for maize that was delivered to the 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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