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    "id": 974497,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Uganda. Eriya Kategaya’s children were my friends, and they lived simple lives. They lived in public houses and everyone laughed at them; how their father could be number two in the Republic and yet live a simple life. He died having lived a very simple life. We must also deal with these values that we have in society, that once you in Parliament, you become a tree that gives rise to cash, or you become a cash dispenser that everyone can draw cash from. Two, is on the sophistication of corruption. This Bill will help us deal with those who are primitively corrupt. They steal, you see them flashing that cash in churches very weekend, you see them buying big cars and marrying additional wives. However, there is that sophisticated thief, the one David Ndii says is pinching our pockets versus the one who is stealing our taxes. That sophisticated thief whose money is in those places that the Panama Papers have talked about. This Bill might need to give some thought to it. Three, we have existing agencies. We have the Assets Recovery Agency, established by an Act of Parliament. We have the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), which already has certain powers to deal with corruptly acquired property. Let us make sure that we are not creating an additional layer, but making these complimentary and making these to give effect to their work. Madam Temporary Speaker, there is a time the President made a proclamation. All procurement officers and accountants in government entities, particularly the National Treasury, were told to step aside for a lifestyle audit. We also need to get a report on the outcome of that, because sometimes these issues can be weaponized to deal with people and to get people of a certain community or a certain conviction out of office so that a fresh breed of looters can be brought in. Finally, we need to look at ourselves in the mirror. I hope that we are going to have the confidence and the fortitude as Parliament, to allow ourselves to be subjected to a lifestyle audit. As Sen. Wetangula said, if you look at the history of commerce and industry in this country, when the white person left, it is the ruling class that took over the assets of the then Imperial British East African Company (IBEAC). They took over the land, the business contacts, the supply chains and everything that the White person had built. It has become the norm that to get into politics is an avenue to riches. Are politicians ready and willing to subject themselves to a lifestyle audit? At what point are we going to apply it? The last time this conversation came up, people said that there are historical injustices that we are not supposed to focus on. There should be no holy----"
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