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"content": "Having said that, the question that the Senate Majority Leader posed, and I would have wished that he was here, on what it is that we could have done wrong, and what could we have done better? I think that is where the conversation should sit. Unfortunately, our foreign policy does not seem to be serving our national and regional interests in the way that it should. I heard Sen. Onyonka being put to task to substantiate the obvious. I just want to urge our colleagues, all of us, to be truthful to facts and the reality of our time. In December, 2023, the Congo River Alliance (CRA), bringing together opposition politicians from the DRC and the March 23 Movement (M23), the rebel group, in Nairobi and they launched their operation in Nairobi. It is open to everyone, even school children, on that account alone, that Kinshasha withdrew their envoy. At the same time, Kinshasa even threatened to withdraw from the East African community (EAC) and actually recalled their ambassador who was sitting in Tanzania. The question that we should ask ourselves is, if we had handled this matter of M23 in Nairobi differently, would the results have been different? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I listen to colleagues speak at times and I wonder, if H.E the Rt. Hon. Raila Amolo Odinga was speaking the language of some leaders who speak on the Floor of this House when he was our age, where would he be today? Where would this country be today? Hon. Raila Amolo Odinga is not a person that is given to sycophancy or praise singing. He will say it as it is. I am very sure that on the matter of the activities of M23 and the Congo River Alliance in Nairobi, he takes a very different view from the view taken by the National Executive of Kenya. The quest for the AUC chairmanship is not the end of Kenya's quest for leadership in the region. There will be other positions that other Kenyans are suitable for. I want, for the avoidance of doubt, to state that some of us consistently have believed in the leadership of Raila Amolo Odinga. We have campaigned and voted for him for many years. The people that speak here as though they know and support Raila Odinga more than other people, have never voted for him, even once. If anything, they have demonised him the most. The engagement of Kenya and our neighbours is not ending with the end of the elections in Addis Ababa. What we allowed to happen on our capital yesterday was not right and we must tell this Government as much. Allowing the operations of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) from Sudan in Nairobi and even begin the process of forming a government from Nairobi is like shooting ourselves in the foot. That is exactly what we are doing. If we do not see these things for what they are, then we have lost it. Who are the members of the RSF movement? We all know them. The greatest component of the RSF is Janjaweed militias. The history of Janjaweed, for those who do not know, is recorded in all books of history of their involvement in the crisis in Darfur, the killings, torture and maiming of people. Despite that, we still allow those groups to come to Nairobi and pretend to form a Government of Sudan from Nairobi. What do we expect?"
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