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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "elections, we elect 47 Governors, who are all poor and ordinary people. However, after five years, you have increased the number of billionaires by 47 in the country.” This is true because a person who did not even have a second car, all of a sudden owns a helicopter. A person who did not have a second suit, now only wears Pierre Cardin. They used to buy suits from River Road that looked like gunia s, but they are now wearing Pierre Cardin suits, which have been bought using public money. We must strengthen the institutions of governance in this country so that every single shilling that we vote for in this House and in the lower House, goes to good use. I want us to be like Nigeria, which is known for corruption, but also for no- nonsense on corruption. After the first term of devolution in Nigeria, 75 per cent of the governors went to jail, some for life. However here in Kenya, a governor who was reported in the newspapers to be facing a court case on theft and fraud, is now laughing at others. He is not laughing because the others are wrong and he is right; he is laughing at the State for never catching up with him. That is what they are enjoying. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this country must change. President Uhuru has declared war on corruption, and I want to urge him not to relent. We should not just think that corruption is limited at the top level, because it is at every level. The clinical officer who puts medicine in his pocket in the evening as he goes home and treats people in his village for gain is a thief and as corrupt as the man sitting in a Ministry and making money for himself. I would say much more but let me end here and support this Bill. We must do something because this country is headed the wrong direction, and it is only for us to change it. There are no angels who will descend on this country to change the way we live. It is for us to change our country. Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir."
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