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"speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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"content": "under Article 10 of the Constitution. So, nearly a third of the House has contributed. I went through the HANSARD of yesterday morning, evening and this afternoon and I have been watching from my office. I want to say that the mood that I set yesterday, you know politicians go astray, Members kept to that mandate. Why do I say so? Nobody spoke about the challenge the President gave to the Legislature in terms of making sure that they support the Government in the Big Four Agenda. He thanked Parliament, more so the National Assembly, for making sure that all the laws relevant to the implementation of the Big Four Agenda have been passed and the only remaining ones are under mediation. So far, we have finished, as the National Assembly and we are meeting with our colleagues next week. The President also applauded the House for making sure that we passed 22 Bills in the first and second sessions. Thirdly, and I said this, and I want to repeat it, the President… I spoke to him this morning in China and I told him that he is the only one who is sincere about bringing the nation together. He is the only one because the rest are not sincere. The former Prime Minister, the Deputy President, Kalonzo Musyoka, Musalia Mudavadi and all of us politicians are not sincere. I am not going to withdraw that statement. The only person who wants the nation to unite and to have one voice is the President. Why do I say so? Our friends on the other side, who because of that divisive election we decided to bring our people together outside politics, want to do selective handshake. You want to greet the President, but you do not want to greet his Deputy. If you come to our side, there are those who are saying that they cannot greet Raila Odinga because of history. I really want to urge that the weekend funerals and meetings, if there is anything that will burn this great country, it will be the utterances of politicians. I want to ask my colleagues to watch our tongues. The tongue is a small part of the body, but it can destroy a nation. The tongue is a small part of the body, but it can bring ethnic animosity. Let us watch what we say, where we say it and how we put it. On the war against corruption, successive Governments have tried to deal with it. During the late Mzee Kenyatta, there was the Chepkute Coffee Scandal. If you come to Mzee Moi, there was the Goldenberg Scandal, and if you come to Mzee Kibaki’s Government, there was the Anglo Leasing Scandal. If you come to the Jubilee administration, there is the National Youth Service and many other scandals. Corruption must be fought by all Kenyans and it must be a behaviour change. What did the President say? He said that the Constitution and this House have created independent institutions to deal with corruption and they are answerable only to the National Assembly and the Senate. The Controller of Budget, the Auditor-General, the EACC, the DPP, the DCI, the Inspector General of Police and Parliament in its oversight role, are all independent institutions. In fact, it is very dishonest for Members of Parliament to shout at funerals about corruption in the Government when you are the ones who appropriate money and you are the ones who are supposed to watch over the money. Let us call a spade a spade. As a Member of Parliament, a Member of the Public Investments Committee, the Public Accounts Committee, the Budget and Appropriations Committee and Administration and National Security Committee, you have a duty to protect every penny that you appropriate. So, when you go to a funeral and talk about fighting corruption, you have a constitutional mandate to fight it. Every three months, the DPP and the EACC submit their reports to this House showing the cases they have investigated, prosecuted and the cases they have taken to court. The same happens with the Judiciary. The state of the Judiciary petition is brought to this House. The 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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