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    "id": 964797,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiambu CWR, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Gathoni Wamuchomba",
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        "legal_name": "Gathoni Wamuchomba",
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    "content": "is. The worst thing is that once we strain our economic power, we look for other avenues to have solutions. For example, today we have been given the BBI Report which we have been waiting for. So, we can see the tension that has been there in delivering political and economic power has been brought down. We congratulate our President Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta and his brother Raila Odinga for having made that wonderful milestone of bringing soberness to our economic and political power sharing in this country. We must be live to the fact that we are MPs and our work is to advise them on where we think things are not going right. Kenya will not be stable economically - especially on issues to do with money - if we are unable to make decisions on such sensitive offices like the Office of the Auditor General. Hon. Speaker, allow me as an MP for Kiambu County to echo their problems and pain when it comes to money issues. You all know that in Kiambu County, we have issues to do with money and accountability to the extent that some leaders have been taken to court. The Report which has been used to take them to court is the one which came from this Office of the Auditor- General. So, how do we sustain the war against corruption if we do not have a stable and well settled Auditor-General whose terms of work and references are already known so that we can continue with the war against corruption? We cannot win the war against corruption if we do not have proper plans and ensure there are relevant people occupying sensitive offices like the one of the Auditor-General. Hon. Speaker, as I conclude, I am a woman. Most women of my calibre, those who believed in us and voted for us believe in family planning. If we can plan our families, why can we not plan ourselves economically and have a clear planning strategy on succession. I cannot believe this because it is not very easy for some of us to swallow. That we cannot have a strategy after the current Auditor-General’s term expires to know who is next, when and how. If we cannot plan that as a country, we must confess that we have failed the people of this country, honest citizens, and we must go back to the drawing board."
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