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    "content": "House, we should be our brother’s keeper. We want to mind our language. We want to speak a language that promotes peace and dialogue. We want the spirit of give and take. That is the only way that we can build a nation that is peaceful, prosperous and can last beyond this generation and many generations to come. We owe not to ourselves but to the future generations. The AMANI Forum will be able to organize this through various activities. One of the proposed activities is to engage hon. Members in regional activities to learn experiences. In the last Parliament, some hon. Members went to Rwanda to see what the impact of post-conflict was where over 300,000 skulls are concentrated in one particular place. That time, I even felt that we did not have to go very far; all we needed is to go to a place known as Lopiding Sub-District in Lokichoggio to see the kind of people without limbs who were being treated by the ICRC in the Lopiding Hospital in Lokichoggio. The effects of war are real. The effects of war are devastating! The effects of war destroy nations! It is not enough to argue that you have to go through some baptism by fire or destruction in order to come and make some faster growth. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, through AMANI Forum, we want to commit ourselves as legislatures that we do not have to go to war in order to grow faster. We can actually grow faster in terms of our economic growth through peaceful means and times. We would like this country to make that distinction that we are the exception to the general rule. Why not? We are Kenyans! We are capable, we have capacity, we have the resilience and we should be able to do it. I would like this House to provide the leadership through the AMANI Forum: That the leadership of this nation; the leadership of reconciling our people is one objective that AMANI Forum would like to realize. You and I are members of our national chapter. We also have Mr. K. Kilonzo, who is the Secretary-General, Mr. Ogindo who is the Vice-Chairman and many other hon. Members across the political divide and the regions. The second activity that AMANI Forum wishes to engage our parliamentarians is the activity of inter-community dialogue where we have identified specific areas that we believe have always been problematic; that we need to engage more. That will be our modest contribution, as a Parliament, to peaceful co-existence of communities, an agenda that, indeed, the Executive is already helping somewhat but we also need to demonstrate our willingness and resolve, as a Parliament, to ensure that this particular activity can be done very properly. There are no better people to do it than hon. Members because our people trust us. Our people elected us and they have they will crack the whip if we do not play our role at the end of every election. This is why we believe that this particular activity will be able to help our hon. Members in terms of helping our societies and we will be going out. We would like to go to the borderlines within Nyanza Province, North Rift, Upper Rift and Upper Eastern provinces. We would like to go to the Coastal region and the North Eastern Province. In the words of Mahatma Gandhi, when speaking in the Indian Congress in 1946, he said: “We speak so eloquently here but until we go out and reach there, then by the time we come back, when we will humming, then India will sing because we will be speaking of things we know of and not of things that we are imagining.” Our nation needs a lot of healing and a lot of reconciliation and AMANI Forum has placed that responsibility rightly and squarely on the shoulders of hon. Members of the Tenth Parliament."
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