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    "id": 979701,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Mwaura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "The APNAC has participated in ensuring that Kenya was the first country to sign the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC). It also, among other little wins, stopped the corrupt Prime Minister of Malaysia from addressing an anti-corruption conference way back in 2015. He was later on deposed by Mahathir Mohamad after public outcry. Madam Temporary Speaker, recently, we had a meeting with the Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission (EACC), which is a product of APNAC, through proposed legislation that hon. Musikari Kombo tabled on the list of shame. Going through the deliberations of this Conference, which was illuminating and encouraging, I will, therefore, dedicate the rest of my time to highlight some of the key observations that were made. First, we cannot win the fight against corruption if there is no political goodwill. As I said earlier, political corruption is the mother of all corruption. So, if we have a leadership that is attuned to corruption and has found its way to political power as a result of the proceeds of crime and corruption, it becomes extremely difficult for such leadership to have the right political will, because it is trying to cut the supply chain to power that they enjoy. Madam Temporary Speaker, Hong Kong is an independent territory of China. We were able to learn about the power of the Supervisory Committee of the Communist Party, which oversees all public servants, so that they do not engage in any form of corruption. There are severe sanctions for those who engage in corruption. This is important because there is a nexus between civil servants and corruption. All the Government tenders may be awarded to company associated to civil servants and also the trading of information that would occasion the awarding of lucrative tenders by associates of the very civil servants. Later on, I participated in an anti-corruption exercise at the Chinese Academy of Governance (CAG) through APNAC. We learnt that the Communist Party of China does not just stop at the rule of law and order, but also self discipline and purification. They say that self discipline is higher than the rule of law. This is true because a person steals from the public not because he or she is not being seen, but because he or she lacks integrity, which has no two ways. It is either you have it or not."
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