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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wako",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Sitswila Wako",
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    "content": "There is no doubt at all with the military but the issue is, why have the military succeeded where civilians, elected leaders, civil servants and people appointed to this post have failed? That to me is the issue which we really have to address. We should now start addressing why we have failed and the military are succeeding rather than involving the military. We do not want a situation like that of the proverbial camel to arise. I just want my eyes to enter the tent and then my head. I just want my stomach and then one is kicked out of the tent as the camel moves in. We do not want that situation to arise in future. We should start thinking now. What can we do to bring discipline into our civil society, civil servants, public service and so on? What can we do to ensure that the public and civil servants think more of the country and not that it is now our time to eat when they are on the job? Mr. Speaker, Sir, to just summarize now, the issue of political stabilization, which was referred to is key because of the ethnic clashes that we have had in the past. For example, we have figures in this Address that in 2007 clashes, we lost close to Kshs1 billion every working hour for the 123 days. Then the economy lost Kshs1 billion. You can imagine the economy losing Kshs1 billion. If the economy loses Kshs1 billion because of fighting, another Kshs1 billion because of corruption, what can the balance of Kshs1 billion do apart from paying the wages and very little will go towards development? Therefore, it beholds us to follow very closely what President Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta Government has laid down. Let us have somebody who can carry out that legacy and now address some of the points and the issues that have arisen as outlined in my submission. With that, I wish to once again thank President Uhuru Kenyatta for the very informative Address that he gave us. In spite of all the problems that we have had; Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), drought and clashes, it really shows that his eyes have been on the ball and he has brought a lot of development in this country. I thank you, for giving me the extra five minutes."
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