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    "id": 950263,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/950263/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mavoko, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Patrick Makau",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Makau King'ola",
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    "content": "Climate change is real. The bodies which have been charged with conserving the environment, through planting trees, have instead stolen money meant for this exercise. Yesterday, everybody saw the windstorms. I am sure Prof. Maathai, wherever she is, is telling Kenyans: “I told you.” This has been contributed mostly by corruption. We failed to conserve our water sources. We have always been debating the Mau Forest and whether to evict people or not. Sometimes back, nobody used to build or dwell on hills or mountains. Nowadays, you can see houses on top of mountains, which used to be protected. What is that? What happened to the foresters and district officers who used to protect Government property and public utilities? Nowadays, we have seen, through the Ministry of Lands, people with legitimate title deeds having their land stolen by a few individuals from the Ministry just because they have the rights or have been given the duty to register land. Unless stringent measures are introduced, we are going to have civil servants and persons with a lot of appetite for everything through corruption, taking over. It is important for us to implement this amendment, so that, at least, future corrupt persons can fear. As we are, we are exposed. Today, anybody will steal and tomorrow he is taken to court. We have heard the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) taking what we are being told is the “big fish”, to court, but we are yet to hear people being jailed, their properties frozen and passports withdrawn. When someone steals money meant for education and his children are in Europe studying, then that person is not mindful of our children. If you go to the Ministry of Education, scholarships are not going to the right people. There are needy brilliant children in this country who qualify for the scholarships, but because of corruption, the scholarships end up not being given to the deserving people. Even the persons who are given the scholarships sometimes do not utilise them. They are not utilised. It is important for us to check and scrutinise all our ministries. I am not afraid to say that most of the corruption is being championed by the people we have given the mandate to look after the welfare and development funds in this country. It is important for this House to pass this Bill with the amendments as proposed by Hon. Ndindi Nyoro to help this country to curb corruption. Then, development will come as we have appropriated in our budgets in the House. 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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