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    "content": "in the footsteps of my senior, Dr. Eseli Simiyu, I start by quoting something I have learnt in my interactions as a PAC member. It says: “You get what you inspect and not what you expect.” I have seen that live in Government operations and in our various interactions as PAC. Generally speaking, they usually say that a stable country has three elements. One is a functional modern state. Two, the rule of law and of course, three, is accountability especially through democracy. If you look at economies that are doing very well, there was a sequence of having those characteristics. They also say - and I believe it - that when a country gets a democracy before a strong bureaucracy, that country takes too long to pick up. You will have people with a lot of rights but without a proper functional state. Maybe, we are victims of a country that is too democratic but also with a very weak bureaucracy and state. I say so because we keep on talking about some of the issues that my Chairman and the other Members have talked about, especially corruption. If you look closely, the same issue we keep on repeating, and our failure to fight it, is premised on a country having a very weak state. Our state apparatus charged with fighting graft and other vices are the ones that are failing us. At the grassroots level, the role of the current chief cannot be compared with that of the chiefs of yester years. This is because our bureaucracy is too weak that you may actually know that somebody is corrupt, or somebody sells bhang in the village, but there is nothing you can do as a government official. What belongs to everyone belongs to no one. We now have a situation where we have very many people doing the same thing. There is no one who asks for results. If you come to the fight against corruption, you will find that we have very many entities, but we do not know where the buck stops."
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