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"content": "amassed in this world. What is ailing this country? I do not know why we should stand here and all blame President Ruto. It is legislators who pass these laws. It is us to blame for all the challenges we are going through. Can we please bring a mirror, look at it and say that if the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) is sold, it is me to blame because who is President Ruto? Yes, he is the President, but you are the one giving him the power to sell it. We should stop lying to Kenyans and become honest. Let the spirit that is troubling us of the departed soul, a true left-wing who fought for the rights of the people who suffer, continue to trouble us to a point where we will say no because they are the ones who shaped the future of this country. They are the ones who started fighting for liberation. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it saddens me to see most of us, either Jewish, Hindu, Christian or whatever religion we confess, stand here and blame someone else, not knowing that it is you; and it behoves you as a person, to live this world a better place. Today, we are very spiritual and I am extremely spiritual. In Psalms 116: 14, the Bible says that- “I will pay all my vows to the Lord in the presence of all his people.” It is about time we start asking ourselves what enough is. Is our salary enough? Mr. Speaker, Sir, we talked about the issue of the oil and what people do not know is that our financial institutions, especially the ones that are partly owned by the Government, are being brought down to a halt. When a government pushes a financial institution to open a letter of credit for Kshs20 billion, then what happens? They import the oil; the oil comes here; it is frozen and then the manufacturing companies that were manufacturing it before, who were told that what they are manufacturing is substandard, are now forced to buy it. The problem is that we do not like being honest. They are being forced to buy, so that they can reprocess. No wonder people say: “What is happening in this country is that we are slowly killing ourselves.” When I was coming in, I saw a small clip of someone saying: “Listen, we voted for a government that will slowly kill you. You spend most of your time taking care of yourself; you go to clubs; you avoid getting HIV, but then you go home and buy oil that will give you cancer. However, do not worry. You can borrow Kshs500 from the Hustler Fund to go to hospital. Then when you go to the hospital, there is no medicine. So, you die forgetting that you do not have Kshs1,500 to pay for your death certificate. You leave that problem to all your neighbours.” People speak sense. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this spirit which is making us restless today of left-wing; I want to beseech my dear brothers from the other side of the aisle and even some more on this side, who believe in just selling and supporting every policy that comes in without thinking about the consequences and the other unintended consequences. May the spirit of the departed Hon. Lawrence Sifuna rest in eternal peace; as he leaves us in this country, where we have decided to rape it; we have decided to destroy it. May it trouble us to a point where we will wake up from our slumber land and remember that we must be our brother’s keepers. I want to see my Chairperson not only coming here to eulogize the late Hon. Lawrence Sifuna and take the opportunity to castigate policies of a government that he The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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