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"content": "mothers to the beneficiaries of those blankets. One of them said, “you have brought blankets and sanitary pads. However, I have not gotten diapers.” I had to say, okay. Diapers were taken to the wing where we had about 17 abandoned babies. On another occasion, you give this and that, and they say, ‘but you have not brought A, B, C, D.’ On several occasions, someone said, ‘yes, but you could have given us also Kshs2,500, at least Kshs3,000, give us something.’ I asked, ‘do you have a pending bill, is it that you have to pay, is Linda Mama not working?’ They said, “no, that service is free, but since you are giving, and I mean, you have come with a blanket, and you have come with this; you might as well also give money.” You therefore understand how that culture is born. It is not like, ‘thank you so much for this.’ It is like, ‘give me more and give me more.’ I want to say, this Bill is not about politicians who are misbehaving, but every single Kenyan who is misbehaving. I have told you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, politicians misbehave by ensuring that they are the ones who are contributing the most to show off. Not only do they misbehave on that nature, but it also pushes on corrupt activities, so that they can fuel all their weekend harambees. We have seen individuals in households misbehaving. I have told you, we are going to visit a neighbour, they open a WhatsApp group to collect. People have killed their parents who are still alive, just so they can run harambees. People have actually run harambees stating that their children are sick, yet their children are not sick, just so they can run harambees and benefit. It is a whole industry. Out of that bad behaviour and bad culture of Kenyans, from leadership to the bottom, I want to fully support this Bill. It is time that we tell each other the truth. The truth is, as I conclude, Harambee - Nyayo, the spirit of dependency that is where this came from. Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir."
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