{"id":979705,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/979705/?format=json","text_counter":559,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. (Dr.) Mwaura","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":13129,"legal_name":"Isaac Maigua Mwaura","slug":"isaac-mwaura"},"content":"To what extent, therefore, do we say how one pilfers from the state and the perpetuation of the nation-state that is Kenya, as a colonial enterprise for extractive purposes? Again, you will find a lot of correlation in the roles of the state in a book entitled ‘ Why Nations Fail’ by Daron Acemoglu. So, we need to have a serious unpacking of this because it becomes a clarion call. You will find that a person steals money from the public, wins a political seat, and then they perpetuate the same by capturing the state, because they are part of the state when they become MPs."}