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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "putting into effect our role of oversight and ensuring the people’s resources and revenue are not put to waste. Also, those who have the control of these appropriated funds are made accountable. Therefore, in doing this work the way they are doing, I hope that we, as a Senate, will continue to show that we are not protecting counties just by ensuring that they get more resources, but ensuring that the resources that go to counties are used in accordance with the directions of Parliament as a whole and more particularly, the Senate. While at it, there should be no delay in the appointment of the Auditor-General. I think it is getting overdue because when there is no substantive holder in that office at any one time, that is when opportunities are created to ensure cartels get away with what they should not be getting away with. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will only add one more issue since you have been gracious and kind enough to give me some little time. I appreciate for being given some little time because I know there is a Motion of Adjournment coming. I am talking on the basis that I have heard people talking about this animal called corruption from many Governments of the past. Every Government has tried to deal with corruption more particularly, by trying to punish impunity and if they were successful, I cannot say. The most important way of ensuring that there is no corruption is by shutting out the opportunity for corruption. Not dealing with corruption once it has been committed, I do not think that is the most effective way. The other day, I heard a senior lawyer in India in one of the courts talking about the jockeys running away and leaving their horses. In our environment, we strike when both the horse and the jockey have gone. We are trying to catch up with the jockey, but we can never catch up with the horse."
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