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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to support His Excellency the Presidentâs very informed Statement. I say âstatementâ because it was a statement of facts. Nevertheless, it had some inherent problems. Looking at the entire Speech, we missed on the youth. As long as we do not consider the youth of this country, we will always have problems. I have looked at the document again and again and in as much as we would like to imagine that things will work out fine, as long as we do not consider the fact that over 75 per cent of our population now almost falls in that category, then the entire approach is not good. I would have expected that His Excellency the President comes up with very candid measures so that he can support the youth. This youth are all over and are maturing very fast. I want to point one particular problem which is now very apparent, particularly in Central Kenya. This problem is alcohol. The youth in Central Province cannot produce any more, particular the men. It is a fact. About 95 per cent to 98 per cent of them have impotence of one kind or another because of alcohol. What is more shocking is that this alcohol originates from a factory which is somewhere in Nyanza and is repackaged somewhere in Naivasha, which is my constituency. Thinking about the youth and looking into the fact that we are going further and destroying their reproductive capability, then His Excellency the President should have come out very clearly on that particular aspect. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, while talking about the youth, we cannot forget about their mothers. This is because it is a fact that 66 per cent of the labour force in this Republic of Kenya is made up of women, no matter which way you look at it. But when you look at how much land they own, observing all respect for all the cultures, you will find that they own less than 1 per cent of land and control less than 10 per cent of the national resources in terms of money and everything else. Again, in a globe that now does not have any boundaries and is very transparent and where every human being is equal before the law, constitution and God, it would be fair to bring in measures like the Women Enterprise Development Fund. Under the current dispensation, the Women Enterprise Development Fund cannot work. It is not useful and that money could have been disbursed properly through the SACCO system and those SACCOs established at the constituency level, so that they are able to use the womenfolk who are already very disciplined and transparent in their own way and have a structure. I know one small group of about 200 women in my constituency at a place called Kinungi. All they contribute is a melamine cup. Since they have a structure, all we need to do is get those women now and then put them into real economy. Kenya has become a net consumer and the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance will remember that no matter how hard he tries, as long as we are all dependent on the little money got from the taxes, we are not producing. We are net consumers and importing everything, including toothpicks, butter and limousines. It is not that we cannot produce but our people do not have that capability. They should be enabled to do as much. Women will always be with us and should be considered greatly in this dispensation. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, nobody would like to see corruption. But corruption, to my thinking and common thinking, is that position in which you as an individual uses your position for gain. You influence for gain and in that way, you are able to get some proceeds. Those proceeds are what hon. ole Ntimama was trying to refer to. I agree with hon. ole Ntimama because as long as we have presidents who think that they can buy leadership, they will continue doing the maize scams running into billions of shillings because that is what the budget tells them. That is what I feel. I support what hon. ole Ntimama has said. I think we should look at it more seriously. All those people who are mentioned, including hon. John Mututho, if you really want to be the President of the Republic of Kenya and you have been mentioned in those mega scams, then who is going to trust you with the Central Bank of Kenya? You are going to loot everything. You are going to be like the late Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku wa Zabanga. The man died with Zaire. You are going to be like all the other dictators. That is the first indicator. We have very many good men and women here in this Republic who can stand very poor, just like President Obama did, carry the brains and become President of the Republic of Kenya, including my good friend, hon. K. Kilonzo. The billions are not important than the power to lead the people of Kenya. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, talking about corruption again, I must persuade this House very genuinely; that when we stand and say that all the judges are corrupt, then what we have done is destroyed our very foundation in due process. What we should be doing really is pinpoint who are these corrupt judges by name and then deal with them like that. But when we demonize these judges and then expect to have sound judgement, then it is expecting too much. That is why they will not be able to conclude the corruption cases. This is because they are people who can be sacked in the streets. That has happened in the past. You will remember the radical surgery. One day the Minister for Constitutional Affairs perhaps, with due respect to Christians and everybody else, maybe, from divine advice came on and said that so many judges were wrong, corrupt and should be sacked. Those are people who were in the Court of Appeal and were respected because they had done very good judgements. That is wrong. We should have decency. The other day, I was driving along Uhuru Highway and I was the last person in the queue before coming to the roundabout. A Minister was passing by in a car with a flag. The man behind me was hooting and I was applying the brakes because decency and decorum dictates that your respect a Cabinet Minister. That is why he is flying a flag. He is not just a nobody. In the same breath, we should be able to afford respect for the judges. As long as they sit there, let us not come here and demonise them. This issue of sacking them enmass is not good. Let us pick individuals who have done mistakes and let them face their own music. Let those people be tried on their own."
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