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"speaker_name": "Mr. Poghisio",
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"content": "I have just returned from Barcelona, Spain, with a global award for this country. It means that we are doing something right in this country. Kenya is only the fifth country to be awarded the Global Award in Mobile Communications. The Government of Kenya must be doing something right. So, we cannot paint a picture that sounds negative of this country. It looks like we are doing something right in other sectors. Let us show the positive things that we are doing. Kenya is only the second country in Africa, after Egypt, to be awarded that honour. So, we should begin to think why Kenya is being recognised in the area of telecommunications. It is because we are doing something right. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, Information Communication Technology (ICT) is going to drive development. Even the things we are talking about on corruption, if we embrace ICT solutions, we are going to see a drop in the way things are done. So, we do not have to fight over files. If you have digital information, there will be no use for files. You cannot hide files under your table. You cannot run around looking for files in the offices. So, the right thing to do is to digitise records. That is what is now happening even in the Ministry of Lands and other places. The idea that this Tenth Parliament will get the time to show the world that it can move this country forward is a very noble one. The enactment of a new Constitution is going to be one of those benchmarks for us in this Parliament. I am glad that the Draft Constitution is already with us, and we are now going to debate it. I hope that we will make it work for us, so that we can have a new constitution in the course of this year. I want to urge my colleagues that we must use this opportunity to get a new Constitution. I am willing to join my colleagues and make sure that we do the right thing for our people. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I intend to pick individual things that the President said. He has highlighted certain laws that are going to be enacted â laws that are going to support infrastructural development, fight against corruption, constitutional reforms and Agenda Four. All those are going to come up in this Session. So, I would like to support the President on those aspects. I just want to focus a little on insecurity. The security situation in this country needs great attention, especially in the rural areas. As I speak to you, cattle rustling is going on in parts of this country. I happen to be a victim of cattle rustling. Just yesterday, my friends on the other side, the Turkana, raided a Pokot manyatta and made away with a number of livestock. Livestock is their livelihood. So, we need to understand that when people lose all their livestock, they have lost everything. The response to such situations should be quicker, so that security forces can recover the livestock. The livestock is in southern Turkana, which is not far from where they were taken. I think understanding pastoralism in that sense will help us to respond when the pastoralist lose their livestock. By now the Red Cross, Ministry of State for Special Programmes and everybody should rush there and say: âYou have lost everything. We are coming to your assistanceâ. That way people will know they are being cared for. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, hon. Members need to focus on the agenda that the President has put forward which is the state of the country. It is up to us to pick up from there and not to try to fight our wars on the Floor of the House. With those few remarks, I support this Motion."
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