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    "id": 932689,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13219,
        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
        "slug": "erick-okongo-mogeni"
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    "content": "and our people being able to receive treatment. However, that is not the case. If you read the Report that has been tabled before the House, in a County like Migori, there are no records for medical supplies that were delivered. The stories that you get across the counties makes you wonder: This money that we send to counties where does it go? Hospitals do not have drugs. It is like it was better when the national Government was running hospitals than now when hospitals are under counties. That is not what we need to see. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to speak to the DPP, EACC and DCI that action has been taken in other places on people who hold senior positions than governors. As we speak, the Prime Minister of Israel is facing corruption charges. The former President of Brazil has spent time in jail. The same applies to the former President of South Korea. Those are high ranking officials who are senior than our governors. I wish to commend the good job that has been done of late by the EACC. I do not wish to speak of the merits of the case, but what is now being presented in court is not just a case of failure to comply with procurement laws, but these are cases where there is proper paper trail. These are cases where governors have been found culpable of using their cronies to award contracts to their friends and their family members and in return that money is wired to their personal accounts. We need to fix that. I thank the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) for coming up with this idea of not allowing people to withdraw money over the counter. This way we are able to have paper trail. What we expect now is for the Judiciary to play its role. Where cases have been brought to court and there is enough evidence to sustain a conviction, let there be first quick trials and those culpable be sent to jail."
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