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"content": "I am not even going to comment on the Constitution. We will have the opportunity to talk about the Constitution starting tomorrow. The only thing I will agree with the President on is in his second last paragraph where he has demonstrated absolute confidence in this Parliament. He has quoted half a century of his parliamentary career. That confidence, at least, on my part - and I want to believe from the majority of hon. Members in this House, will enable us to rise to the occasion and deliver a new Constitution. I urge the House to sustain the spirit of the Naivasha Accord. I urge the House to make sure that we have the necessary amendments. The Committee of Experts (CoE) cannot purport, like some of us who do not seem to read the Accord, to claim that they know better than those of us who appointed them. We need to be honest with ourselves. We need to have the courage of our own conviction that what was important was about the political consensus that was built for the first time in the history of this country. Politics is a matter of give and take. You cannot just wish to have it your way always. People have gone to great lengths to come to a consensus and then you want to go ahead to defeat that. I think some of our professionals need really to look at--- You can be a competent professional but, are you patriotic enough? Do you have values for the State? Do you care about our survival or, the victims of the post-election violence - the 1,500 dead Kenyans - are nothing to you? These are the questions that even professionals must ask themselves."
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