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    "id": 895030,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "intergenerational equity, our children and the children of our children will never get anything, except to pay debts if we do not use the money that we borrow wisely. This can be to build infrastructure, just like the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), the port that has been expanded and airports that have been built. The people who built the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) are not here. However, many of us are now benefiting from that infrastructure. It is important for us to unite as a country in the fight against corruption. When we say we want to fight corruption, we should not cherry pick and say, we will fight it in this region and not the other. I would like to encourage my colleagues in this House that all governors should be treated in a similar manner in the fight against corruption. It does not matter whether one is from ODM or Jubilee. When we say we want to fight corruption in our counties, we must put that effort. We must also fight corruption ferociously at the national level, so that we ensure that the resources in this country make a difference in our homes. Madam Temporary Speaker, some of us who believe in the fight against corruption also believe that it must be waged using the right tools and process. The President could not have put it better because he said that we do not want to apply what is called “vigilante justice.” There are many things that we do not agree on with Sen. Orengo. However, I agreed with him in his submissions before the High Court, when he properly said, together with Sen. Omogeni, that it is important that when we are fighting corruption, we do not use that process to malign other people or soil their names. If Sen. Orengo remained focused on what he said in court and says it in Ugenya and in this House, that would be the way to go. We must avoid what the President called pitchfork protest and vigilante justice. If that consistency is maintained, this country will achieve sustainable fight against corruption. If we do not do so, as a nation, we will be a country that will be dependent on the person who is in office. It will mean that if I am elected to office I will use that process of fighting corruption to attack my enemies. However, if that process requires investigations that are above board and focused on everybody and everything; and that will not pick this one and leave the other one, then we will achieve a country that has consistency and respect the rule of law. There are so many things that the President captured in this report. I have no time and opportunity to go through all of them. However, this is just a summary. I still insist that all these reports should be submitted to our Committees. They should thoroughly study them and come back to this House even if it is in the form of Motions for us to interrogate all that is in them. Madam Temporary Speaker, in the spirit of the “handshake” that has been captured by His Excellency the President in this report and considering the recent events that have occurred in this country, I am magnanimous enough to invite the Senate Minority Leader, Sen. James Orengo to second this very important Motion."
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