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    "id": 896568,
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    "speaker_name": "Kisumu West, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Olago Aluoch",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support the President’s State of the Nation Address, but there is something that I want to say. I was dismayed on that day because I know His Excellency’s Speech to the nation from the Floor of this House was grounded on the Constitution and the Standing Orders. Discipline and parliamentary language must be maintained throughout. Hon. Speaker, you are a stickler to time as it should be. Members had to wait for about one hour for His Excellency to come in. That must be communicated to His Excellency. He has been a Member of this House and so he knows. He is experienced and he knows that here we keep time. If he is supposed to be here at 2.30 p.m., he must be here at 2.30 p.m. I was also dismayed when Members of this honourable House turned into cheer leaders. When the Deputy President came into the Speaker’s Gallery, chants of “Ruto, Ruto, Ruto” filled the Chamber. There were also chants of “Raila, Raila, Raila”. I was dismayed. I did not know that we had gone down to that level where this House turns to be cheer leaders. I thought the excitement that the presence of the Deputy President or Hon. Raila would remain at that level, but we were not supposed to turn to cheering and sounding like we were in a rally. I was disappointed. That should not have happened. Leaving that aside, the President referred to asset recovery. It is important that we emphasise on corruption and asset tracking and recovery. So far, the office of the DCI, the EACC and the AG are working very well. I expect as we go on towards the end of the year, a lot more will be recovered. Fixed assets like land and buildings are easy to be returned to the owners, but when we recover cash, it is expected that there should be a legal framework on how it will go to either the Consolidated Fund or any other special fund. As it is now, the legal mechanism on recovered funds is missing or is very weak. It is important that this House moves very fast to assist the offices of the AG, DCI and EACC to have a legal framework whereby assets that are recovered, particularly funds, are properly utilised. If that does not happen, although the three agencies seem to be doing an excellent work, we will create another clique of corrupt officials at the Treasury who will use the money that is recovered from corrupt people. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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