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    "content": "role to play. What am I going to say as a Member of Parliament for Ugenya? That I played a role as a Member of Parliament in making that appointment because Parliament has given me a role to play, other than being a Minister? Whenever you see things being brought to this Parliament in a hurry, please, stand up and say no. The one party State was established in this country by Parliament being rushed in a hurry; that we must pass it now. Many laws relating to detention in this country were brought by the Executive. The same Executive brought a law legalizing detention without trial. The first people who were detained at the time, including the then Vice-President Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, stood here to move that motion. I am pleading with the Members of the Executive that an adjournment is not something that the National Assembly should really fight about. We should be able to sit down as grown-ups and say that there is a national crisis on this issue and agree on the way forward. We cannot just go home and pretend that nothing has happened. We have a role to play. We have abandoned our responsibilities to the civil society, Law Society of Kenya and other busy bodies. Now, they are saying that we have broken the law. What is our explanation? Is going on an adjournment our explanation to give to the country on an issue like this? This is the time when Parliament should stand together. We need to sit down, look at it and find a way of resolving it as Parliament. In any case, all of us in this Parliament belong to the Government, except hon. Jirongo. The fact that we are debating this issue means that there is no position from the Government or the Opposition. We are all part of the Government. When you see Members in the Back Bench disagreeing with your decision, there is something wrong. You cannot run away from it. I think we have gone beyond the time when Kenyans stayed back and allowed things to happen. Everything that we do every day is subject to scrutiny. There was a time when we could get away with anything. But right now, even as I sit as the Minister for Lands, I know that somebody is watching everything that I do every day. That person is justified to watch what I am doing. Now, if members of the public have watched what we have done and said: “You have done wrong to the nation”, and we, as leaders, are seriously running away from that decision, I think that would be the greatest tragedy in this country. The most powerful man in the world today----"
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