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    "id": 950361,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kesses, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Swarup Mishra",
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        "legal_name": "Swarup Ranjan Mishra",
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    "content": "ticket. I am not saying we gun down our people, but we have to make strong and stiff rules to streamline rules and regulations. Rules and regulations are not meant to punish people but rather, they are meant to save and protect the good people in the nation as a whole. We must have a strong foreign policy. There is international funding for our country. People come to our country. There is a country I will not name here, but if it gives out, say, Kshs100, Kshs50 will be gone. The same country will take part in tender and there will be no competition. Those are the terms and conditions before funding. Out of that Kshs50, Kshs30 is already taken by the people engaged in that contract. What Kenya gets is, I guess, Kshs20 out of that Kshs100. The interest rates are very high too. So, Kenya is suffering a lot. We have to see what we are going to do when somebody who is corrupt is caught. I was told he or she is not bothered. Why? It is fashionable to be corrupt. It gives one high status to be caught due to corruption. Somebody is caught or arrested on Friday, he sleeps in the cell on Saturday and Sunday and he is out on Monday. I was told that the ladies who are caught also go to salons to make their hair because they will appear on television. Men who are caught are also allowed to buy and dress in suits so that they can appear smart on television. During the next election, they will be contesting. That is because they will have been in the limelight. If we do not set rules and regulations, or we do not monitor or implement them, we will be unable to control corruption. People say politicians are engaged in corruption. My colleagues and friends, the MPs are here. Which corruption are we engaged in? Nothing! We are doing no corruption. It is the Executive which is doing corruption. We have to change the Constitution because we are voted by the people of Kenya and we have to work. The Executive, today, is in power but it is not implementing anything. They are engaging in corruption and there is nothing that is happening. The same Executive is going to implement rules and regulations. So, we are done. We have to be self-sufficient as Kenyans to make our youth and future self-sufficient. We do not want to give all the construction work, for example. Kenyans are doctors, pilots and engineers. What is preventing us from participating in big tenders? We have to make our own laws and rules. We have to prevent the foreigners who are coming for mega corruption. Every foreign company working in Kenya should have a minimum of 40 per cent ownership by indigenous Kenyans or Africans as a rule. I am telling you corruption started long ago but now, it has reached a point where everybody is corrupt. Everybody is dreaming to be president. They think if they make billions of shillings, they will be the president. There is a difference between a leader and a politician. A leader thinks about the next generation. A politician thinks about the next election. So, can we think about the next generation? Look at the NYS Scandal I and II. I interviewed one or two of the youth and they said they had lost 10 kilogrammes after joining the NYS! No food, no transport, nothing! One day I told you, ask the children of those who engage in corruption and listen to what they say. I support this Bill strongly and it should be implemented as soon as possible. Thank you very much."
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