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"speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
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"content": "Look at the compensation being paid for land for building infrastructure, including the SGR. The amount of money people were being paid on compensation, I think even real estate in Heaven, cannot be that expensive. There is no part of the world you would buy pieces of land at the rate at which they are being bought here. So, it makes life very difficult. It makes borrowing in the end very expensive because you are building a structure that you will never make money out of. Finally, there is the question of waste. Kenyans like waste when you translate it into good things around their offices. I was told at one time by some developers that when they want to build anything, they would train one person to be doing everything in terms of driving the truck, which is doing the repairs, being able to erect what was required and write a report about it. Sometimes you may find the way people work here is that you may have one labourer doing a job, but he has about four supervisors at the same time. In those types of circumstances, you cannot make any returns. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, what am I trying to say? This country is bleeding because of its leaders. We are in these economic circumstances because of our leaders. I include myself honestly; I do not want to remove myself from it. If China, where the pandemic started, is still registering positive economic growth, they went down, but never went below zero. Kenya has not been hit the way China was hit. Comparatively, we have not been hit hard as countries in the North or the West. Therefore, there is no excuse why revenue should fall and why we should be having this kind of forecast in this report. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to say this with all humility. Governments were supposed to run in a particular way. That is why in the Westminster Model, when Blair and Gordon Brown could not work together, one had to give way. When both did not quite do what they should do and went to the electorate, they were both chased away. It is just like the story of my friends, Dr. Mukhisa Kituyi and Hon. Musikari Kombo. They fought so hard against each other and were very good people, but when they went to the electorate, they were all removed. The Government is supposed to function in a certain fashion, especially when you are in this kind of dire circumstances. If those who went to Kasarani, took the Bible, and said this is where they were taking Kenya cannot read from the same script, then how can the Senator for Kiambu help resolve the problems? Today, when people were sitting in the Cabinet, the Senator for Kiambu was not there. However, the people upon which responsibility and mandate were given to run the affairs of this country and made certain deliberate statements about there being only two politicians in the Cabinet, in circumstances like this one--- Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, conventions tie people together or give people ways of solving a problem. In the United States, when Spiro Agnew became an embarrassment to President Nixon, Agnew had to go. He had to go not because the Constitution said it, but because they had promised that country the kind of governance they deserved. When Nixon also misbehaved, he did not wait for impeachment. He went simply. The starting point for me is that even for the sake of this country, this Government called Jubilee is letting the country down. You are letting the country down. The promises that they made eight years ago, we are now looking at this. We were supposed The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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