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    "content": "of our ethnic, cultural and religious diversity, and determined to live in peace and unity as one indivisible sovereign nation---” and continues so on and so forth. From those words, we realised what the thinking of the Kenyan people was, right from page one of the framing of our Constitution. We then went to substantive provisions. A lot has been said about Article 10 of our Constitution, to the extent that it speaks to the values that, as a people, we want to be associated with. We have dedicated a whole chapter of our Constitution to the questions around leadership and integrity. It then tells us how central the values that we hold are to each other as a nation. Now, if we look at impeachment from that lens, then we will realise and appreciate that impeachment then comes in to hold our leaders at an even higher pedestal, so that we have a tone at the top that is acceptable, a tone that gives us what has been called elsewhere, political hygiene. We have had occasions in this country where people who have been in positions of leadership have been treated in what other people have thought as harsh treatment. However, it is because when there is a tone at the leadership to be set, it must be clear, it must be vibrant and it must be the right tone. We have had people from the leadership who have lost their office because of having pinched somebody. We have people who have lost their offices because of utterances that were considered inappropriate. A slap has gotten somebody to go through a fairly painful process. The slap is not necessarily the issue, it is the message that it sends. So, similarly, when we talk about our leaders, we then must ask ourselves, what does one wrong word do to the fabric of our society? It is on the basis of that background that we then consider the impeachment Motion that is currently before this House. 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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