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    "content": "think that the Senate is witch-hunting. It is just oversight. We are not being policemen. I am grateful to what Sen. Keter said, because part of the work that we are doing is based on the foundation that you laid. If everybody else would have done his bit as required, probably the Anyang’-Nyong’o Committee would not be totally unnecessary. However, I am saying this because we have a political situation in the country where people are overly sensitive. Anything said in the public, makes people sensitive. You remember there was a white man who called our first President Kenyatta, the leader to darkness and death? Jomo Kenyatta did not do anything about it. He just went on with the struggle until we got our Independence. One time, there was a Prime Minister in the United Kingdom called Winston Churchill and a lady described him as ever drunk which may be ground for defamation. But Winston remarked that he might be drunk but the lady is ugly and that when he wakes up the following day he will be sober but the lady will still be ugly. In politics you find a way of responding to issues as they arise and even in public affairs if you have been told to be oversighted, you look for a basis to respond in kind. But we are becoming too intolerant. Any statement that is made against a public leader, they run to court, police and they want to obtain court orders. For example Sen. Charles Keter cannot say this or do that. So, in the spirit of this new Constitution, we want transparency and accountability and that oversight is not a witch-hunt. Exercising the freedom of expression like going in a public rally and saying something like the Senator for Kakamega is saying something about another politician in public, surely if we are going to be politicians so nervous or so weak, even if you are associated with a woman, you feel like you have been abused---. We are running into a situation where the politics of this country will be like having a debating club in a primary school. If you do not have the shock absorbers, it is better to get away from the business of politics. With those remarks, I beg to move the amendment and ask Sen. (Dr) Khalwale to second."
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