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    "id": 896531,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Gladys Wanga",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Gladys Atieno Nyasuna",
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    "content": "on the Fight against Corruption.’ Even as the President spoke about no turning back on the war against corruption, he must be aware that corruption will definitely fight back and we have seen that corruption is fighting back actively on his war against corruption. We have seen the attacks on the DCI. There are people who are saying that DCI does not have a role in investigating economic crimes such as corruption. He must be aware that corruption will fight back as we see people fighting the DPP. Corruption will fight back. When the church said that they do not want to receive money, we have seen people going against the church and saying: “We will bring our money by force because we must work for the Lord.” But what we know is this: When you want to work for the Lord, it is not for you to go to a pulpit and announce what you are giving. What the Bible says is what your left hand has given, your right hand should not know. So the church is not even saying: “Do not give your tithe. Put your tithe in an envelope, take it to the church and do not make an announcement about it.” What we are seeing are people taking money and sanitising corruption money in churches. And those are the people we have seen fighting the most. Corruption will fight back. The President must know it. The President must remain firm on this path because corruption is not done by any community. Corruption is done by individuals. So communities should not come up saying: “This is our person.” I have heard Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah talking about the Ruaraka land scandal. I want to urge the Chairman of PAC… Because we know that this matter was brought before this House by the Lands Committee which gave its report and it was adopted by this House. I urge the Chairman of PAC not to support a certain line. This Ruaraka land scandal has become a dead snake that is being used to scare anybody who is seen not to support a certain line. This dead snake must be dealt with once and for all. You should not continue scaring people with a dead snake in the name of the Ruaraka land scandal. The President said there is no turning back on our unity as a country. There is no turning back on the Building Bridges Initiative. We must remain firm on that path because there is nowhere we will go as a country if we are always fighting and pulling in different directions. When we start to campaign for 2022 politics now, there is no development that we can achieve. The President was very clear that we must first do development and then 2022 campaigns will come later. But we have people who are campaigning so much for 2022 that even the security apparatus cannot keep up with their schedule of campaigns. If as a DP you have three, four or five meetings in a day, the security apparatus might find it difficult keeping up with your schedule. When Hon. Ichung’wah mentions the PS for Interior, sometimes we mention public servants who, in the course of their duty, may rub us the wrong way. But we must know that they do not have an equal opportunity to defend themselves on the Floor of this House. So, even as we mention that, we must know that, that is something that we must deal with. Talking of people who are funding political groupings, nobody is more funded in terms of political groupings than a group that moves around playing 2022 politics in the name of"
}