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    "id": 979737,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/979737/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Farhiya",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13179,
        "legal_name": "Farhiya Ali Haji",
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    "content": "We all think about the moment; ‘that I will gain where I am, and so, I do not care whether or not corruption is fought.’ Some of the discussions I heard people putting forward are that they did not want people to know about their wealth. My advice to people who do not want their wealth to be public is that they should not seek public appointment. They should run with whatever they have grabbed and do whatever business they want, but disappear from public life. If one is not ready to go through a lifestyle audit, there must be something that they are hiding. At the rate this country is going, sometimes even the looters of the money that they corrupted need protection, because they need business to grow that wealth. The way this country is going, that wealth will not be there. In my view, it is in the interest of even the corrupt that we fight corruption, now and henceforth. Madam Temporary Speaker, people talk about legislation. Legislation cannot tackle bad manners. We are in a society with bad manners. We are sick in the head and think that what we stole is the only wealth that we can get. How bad can it get? We need from the churches, mosques, the temples and all religious circles --- I think that this is the right time to overemphasize the need to have some level of honesty in this country. Madam Temporary Speaker, nowadays, we have technology. I come from a county where they do not even want to use the Integrated Financial Management System (IFMIS) for their transactions. For example, they can take 25 or 30 contractors, who need to be paid, to the Controller of Budget. Those are the submissions that we got from the people in the area. They put a request to pay those people through the system. The moment that money hits the bank account of my county, none of those people gets paid. They promise that they will pay some of them, but the rest of the money just ends up in people’s pockets. Madam Temporary Speaker, we need to control the use of money from the time it is requested to the time of payment. In order to give the counties some leeway to transact,"
}