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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, those of us in the Cabinet who supported the Motion that has just been passed did not do so from the point of view of disloyalty to the highest Executive in this land, but from the point of view of honesty and transparency. That is the basis of good advice and counsel that this nation requires of us. My most famous and preferred theologist, Bishop Augustine of Hippo and not Oginda as my friend, Mr. Murungi, referred to him the other day, once said that in the court of conscience, there is no obligation to obey an unjust law. Conscience is not an easy thing. Indeed, when people simplify it to the effect that when you disagree you must resign from the Government, perhaps, you have more responsibility to be in Government and make sure that the right things are done. It is important to understand that we are in a very interesting experiment in Kenya. We have an experiment where we have a Coalition Government and the other Coalition Government that I know in Africa is in Zimbabwe. These are Governments which are formed after a crisis, where two opposing forces are joined together to ensure that peace, prosperity and the struggle for democracy continues. It is like a ceasefire between wars. When the fire is ceased, you must make sure that the terms of the ceasefire are obeyed and observed; otherwise, you go back to war again. There are those of us who have been in the struggle for a long time and who would like to give Kenyans a chance to build democracy. We would like the ceasefire not to lead to another war, but to lead to a long period of peace and prosperity during which the economy can grow and the architecture of democracy can be put down. It is not going to be easy. It will be full of contradictions, but we must make sure that society only develops when major contradictions are resolved. The major contradiction in this society is between the rich and poor; those who have and those who have not; those who make decisions based on a small power elite and those who want decisions to be made on the basis of a democratic process that brings in the majority of the people and that in the final analysis, is based on the rule of law."
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