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"speaker_name": "Baringo North, JP",
"speaker_title": "Hon. William Cheptumo",
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"content": "We were very careful to ensure that we also comply with Section (9) of that particular Act. Therefore, I want to report to the House that we were satisfied that none of the provisions of the Agreement contravened our Constitution. The implementation of this Agreement is expected to result into several outcomes. We need to ask ourselves: If we approve this Agreement and become a party, how is it going to benefit the country? I will mention a few of them: 1) Coordinated and integrated approach to the fight against corruption involving all stakeholders. There are many agencies fighting corruption. We should not have those agencies fighting corruption separately without coordination. The ultimate aim is to ensure that we sort out corruption in our country. This Agreement allows us to have a coordinated and integrated approach in fighting corruption. 2) Research and documentation on all aspects of corruption and how to tackle various situations. Currently, we have two levels of Government - The national Government and the county governments. We have been told that corruption has been devolved to the county governments. So, there is need to do a lot of research and documentation so that we can see how we can fight it. 3) Enough personnel trained to deal with the corruption menace. 4) It enhances political support in the fight against corruption. 5) Fostering international cooperation and networking in the fight against corruption. 6) Strengthen legal and international framework in the war against corruption. 7) Intensified and targeted efforts to fight corruption in the devolved system of government. The Agreement implementation review shall be carried out at national, county and institutional levels to account for social, legal, economic and political dynamics while ad hoc reviews on fundamental changes in the legal policy and international framework will also be undertaken periodically. So, as I said earlier, corruption in our institutions of governance and the county governments and so on… Those are the areas that this Agreement is going to enable us... That is because as we train staff and as we borrow experiences from other jurisdictions, it will help us fight corruption. Pursuant to Article 118(1)(b) of the Constitution of Kenya, the Committee, through newspaper advertisements in the local national daily newspapers on 20th March 2019, invited the public to make representations on the instrument and no memorandum was received on the same. As I said earlier, we have no option but to involve Kenyans to give their comments. The Committee considered the instrument on its sitting of 15th June 2019 during which the Attorney- General of the Republic of Kenya and the CEO of the EACC appeared and made submissions supporting the approval of the instrument by the House for ratification by the Cabinet. Upon considering the instrument and the submissions by the AG and the CEO of EACC, the Committee made the following observations: (i) That presently - and I think this is very important - there is only one institution that trains personnel from various institutions to deal with corruption. The Government of Kenya, through the Ministry of Education, established the National Anti-Corruption Academy for training employees of organizations dealing with ethics and integrity. The establishment of the institution was necessitated by the fact that, previously, there was no such institution in the country and employees had to be trained out of the country, which was very costly. So, at least, now we have a body or an institution that is training our citizens. 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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