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"speaker_name": "Mr. Bifwoli",
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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when you go further, Clause 30(2) says that a person shall not be required to perform forced labour. I am a teacher by profession and I am sure there are some of my students here. I do not want to name them, but I actually slapped them to read hard. If they came late, I gave them manual labour to work in the school garden. That is how some of them ended up being doctors and Members of Parliament. Today, you are giving a blank statement that no person is required to perform forced labour. What will we do with prisoners or people who have committed crime? They go to prison to be rehabilitated, they must work. Now, when you give us a blanket condition that nobody is allowed to perform forced labour, if you are not supposed to work, then we should behave well in this country. We are not going to have heaven in this world. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is another very interesting provision that every Kenyan is entitled to eat and have a free house and health. When God created us, in Genesis, he said that every man must eat from his own sweat. Now we want men in this country to eat free. At whose sweat will they do so? My brother, people will stop working. We will have a nation of lazy men and women. This should be discouraged. If you really wanted these things, why not put it in statutes, so that when things become very difficult we can amend. They have said to amend anything in the Bill of Rights; it must go to the Referendum. I suspect lazy men are more than hardworking men. It is by nature. People who are idling are more than those who go to farms. If you have ten children, how many volunteered to go to the farms? Out of you ten children, maybe two go to the farms without being told. Others, you must whip them. Now you are saying a country of 30 million, how many will volunteer to go and work for the lazy. I am wondering. Do you say we support this blindly because PNU and ODM say so? Mr. Bifwoli will say no! Whether it is PNU, where I belong, I will tell them: No! Those who know meâ"
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