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    "id": 886006,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/886006/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Malalah",
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        "legal_name": "Cleophas Wakhungu Malalah",
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    "content": "Scanning through the recent cases of corruption in Government, one gets astounded. We are speaking of astronomical figures; billions of Kenya shillings that have gone down the drain in the Dams Saga and similar amounts that remain unaccounted for in the Jet Fuel Scandal. We are talking of the billions of Kenya Shillings of taxpayers’ monies that vanished in the maize payment impasse, et cetera. Madam Temporary Speaker, history is not written in futuristic terminologies. It can only be understood retrospectively. As a junior politician, beginning my political career, I was always awed by the concerted efforts of the Government to strengthen and equip constitutional institutions with powers to prosecute proponents of grand graft just like the cases of Singapore and South Korea. Every single speech by the President was laced with a desire to have independent institutions that would work without the control of the Executive to achieve a corruption free country. It is now shocking to see and hear the very protagonists of this expedition turning themselves into antagonists to bash and disrespect the very institutions they wanted Kenyans to have faith in not so long ago."
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