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    "content": "I have heard some Members saying that the Kenya Kwanza Government is committed to eliminating corruption yet we are seeing people being pardoned for corrupt cases. People who have been convicted have been given the power of mercy on corrupt cases. This includes a case where a person who was accused of defiling a child has been let free yet you are telling us that the Kenya Kwanza Government is committed to eliminating corruption. What corruption? Unless you mean that they are committed to entrenching corruption. That way we will be speaking the same language. On the issue of ethnicity, we passed the National Cohesion and Integration Act, 2008. I played a very significant role in the development of that Act. All that we need to do is to make sure that that Act is implemented. What does it require? Political goodwill. Yet the Majority side are saying that the Opposition are the ones who expect them to implement that Act. There is a law. Implement that law. I have heard a Member who is misinformed telling us that the Opposition should come to this House and oversee the Government. Do you know your role as a legislator? It is legislative, representation and oversight. Do not come here and mislead yourselves thinking you are in the Executive. You are not. Your role is just like mine: oversight. So, oversee this Government and ensure that it does proper work. Allow me to speak to another issue. I am one of the luckiest Kenyans because I am a member of a minority community as well as a member of a majority community. My mother is Luo and my father is Suba. As Suba, we are a minority. One of the things that I have seen that apply to some communities that call themselves minority is that they have gotten a lion share more than even some majority communities have. They come here every time and say that they are minority and are then given some slots. They keep saying that and each time they are added more and more. Now they have become the majority. You may be minority in numbers but majority in representation. So, what we need to do is to ask the NCIC to let us know representation vis-a-vis population. This way we will avoid people claiming that they are a minority when they are not. I will give you an example of the first time I came to this Parliament. I was a very proud Suba. That is why I am called Geza Geza . In Suba, that means the finest of the finest. So I am the finest and a very proud Suba. When I came here, some people started a propaganda which The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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