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"content": "of mistakes by listening to his immoral eldest two daughters and bad advisors, who exist only to praise him for their own personal gain. Though caring for him greatly and always wanting the best for him, King Lear chooses to reject his youngest daughter Cordelia because she refused to flatter or feed his ego like the others by telling him the truth even at the risk of her losing her inheritance. Shakespeare’s motif revolved around King Lear’s fall into error and Machiavellian ways which we see when he arrogantly declares that he has ultimate power and contuse to ignore his subjects whenever he is pleased with them. His inability to see the truth leads him to lose power, wealth, his senses, his truest daughter Cordelia and ultimately, his own life. Madam Temporary Speaker, the entire internet was screaming during Sunday night’s interview with the President. I do not mean to anthropomorphize, but TV screens across the country would have turned themselves off if they could, after what is said to have been a train wreck of a conversation from start to finish and which left the emperor naked. Madam Temporary Speaker, I must acknowledge the decision by the President to have a two-hour unscripted sit-down because, seldom do African heads of state risk putting themselves in unpredictable and uncontrolled environments like that. With our Senate Majority Leader setting the tone through this Motion, let the Senate be your Cordelia, Mr. President. You are a leader in the service industry and just last night, I was told that the two most vital pillars in the service industry are perception and experience. For such a delicate subject matter, you, at the very least, need a stellar crisis communications team because your words kept fueling the fire last week. I also want to remind the President that it is not about him and it is not personal. We did not name it Kenya Kwanza. That was not us. Kenya Kwanza, not Kwanza the noun, but Kwanza the adjective. Instead of putting Kenya first, your presidency has put Machiavellianism first, like King Lear. When all of us, the young people wanted was for you to put Kenya first. Madam Temporary Speaker, like a performance of review of sorts, we expected that on his third attempt to address us on Sunday night, he would come with details, data and definitive or strategies. However, it was still vague, so non-committal and so non- informed. It felt dismissive and disconnected. The President went on national television without a clue of what has been happening in the country that he believes he governs. Was the Deputy President right in his address last week, that his boss may not know what is going on in the country? He was asked how many people are in custody. He replied that, I have a ball park figure from the police that they have enough people. What do you say to the youth who say that yours is not a listening Government, he was asked? He said I have four things, housing jobs, digital jobs, export of labour and manufacturing. You believed that barely one-and-half years ago that you could run the country on Kshs2.9 trillion. In a few months, you went to Parliament and requested for Kshs3.6 trillion. This year you went to Parliament and requested for Kshs4.2 trillion. What do they see in return, they see extravagance in Government, he was told? He replied, let me tell you the following, today, universities were almost closed because of debts of Kshs60 The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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