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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "riders was something different. Mr Temporary Speaker, yesterday I saw a video of Kenyans stealing rice from a truck that had overturned. Decent people stealing sacks of rice and other food stuffs. There was a smartly dressed lady whose husband had opened the boot of their car for her to bring and the person recording was asking why they were stealing. There is a serious breakdown in our society. We must do soul searching as a country. We have become competitive to a fault. We have no regard for other people. If you want to know the state of a country, look at how people behave on the roads. You just want to get ahead and you can never get ahead when you are trying to get even. It is a serious problem. I thank you Sen. Iman, for bringing this Statement. I do not know how the authorities can look into everybody’s house. There is only so much that the Government, Senators and legislators can do. You cannot legislate on morality. We cannot make a law on kindness or common sense and decency. That, you have people working in your house and you are mistreating, punishing and subjecting them to verbal abuse. You find some families, every three months there is a new house help. Who is the problem? Is it the house help or you? As Kenyans, we must ask ourselves that question. Who is the problem when there is this high turn over? Everybody must audit themselves. Look into yourself. Wat is wrong with us? I know that there has been an attempt to have certain conversation but the biggest conversation this country should be having is about our morality and who we are as a people. That is were the problem is. Once we address that, our values and our value system will be addressed. No person will be elected President to change our value system. There is no governor who will change your value system. There is no Act of Parliament we can pass here in the Senate called value system, common sense and morality. We need leadership to talk and find out. Where is the church? Where is the Mosque? Where are the Imams? Where are leaders in the society who can find out what is this that is burning, that makes a young person think that they strip a young woman and express their anger because they are lacking? We are not demons. Are we animals in this society? Therefore, that Statement should really be an outrage and a call for us as a country to go back to pray unto God, think deeply, soul search and just have a place for decency. I did not want to comment. I have a three-year-old daughter. I am very happy and honoured that my domestic staff taken care of her very well. They are amazing. Maggy is amazing. I will even mention her name in Parliament. I do not know how many house helps have been mentioned in Parliament. She is amazing and I can rest easy when I know she is at home. It is also because I treat them with respect. What about the rest of us here?"
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