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"content": "I hope the Nairobi City County has the foresight to even do that. However, I do not think they have foresight, if they can take dirt at the front of Electricity House. That is another story for another day. The second thing such heroes whom we have full recognition of, should be honoured through a state burial. This is somebody who said, “ Je, huu ni Ungwana ?” If Leonard Mambo Mbotela would have a chance again in life, he would ask “ Je, huu niUngwana?” for most things that are happening in this country, including corruption, lethargy, poor governance, poverty, lack of water et cetera. Many Kenyans are going without food, including even those in Nairobi, like Mukuru kwa Njenga, Kibra and others. He would ask us as leaders, “ Je, huu niungwana?” We would be ashamed of it. It does not bring the goodness of what “J e huuni ungwana” would resonate well with many people. Under the National Heroes Council, I expected the brand-new Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Lands, Environment and Natural Resources, Sen. Faki, to propose a street to be named after Mambo Mbotela in Mombasa City County. We also want to ask the Government to name at least one or two streets in Nairobi and other cities in the country to celebrate him. Sometimes we have names that even do not belong to us and to the local people or local leadership. So, I want to ask national Government and the county government with a lot of respect to seize the moment and name one of the streets after Mambo Mbotela. The Kenyan Institute of Mass Communication (KIMC) here in Nairobi should be named after Leonard Mambo Mbotela so that the young men and women who study journalism there can learn how to be a good journalists, so that we do not have journalism that incites. We have a few branches of mass communication. On several occasions, I am very disappointed that every time I wake up, I see the national headlines of respectable newspapers inciting Kenyans against the Government of the day. Sometimes you wonder what the editorial policy of some of these media houses are. They put up funny things. One of these newspapers is The Nairobian . They are embarrassing Members of longstanding, like my brother from Turkana and many other Members. I am asking myself what is the editorial policy before publishing a screaming headline. Yesterday, the headline of the Daily Nation Newspaper was on how the Government is paying the elderly people their stipend through M-Pesa. However, when the Cabinet Secretary of Labour and Social Protection came, he gave the correct position. Why is it that way? I think Mambo Mbotela must be turning in his grave. The media and editorial policies that we have have been sensational. You read the headline and the story, the headline says something different from the story. Even in the reporting of the radio and news anchors. I do not know whether it is Kenyans who like negative news or is it that all media houses have decided to just be negative. You watch the Kenyan news. From item number one to number ten is only negative news. Somebody has been killed, people have demonstrated against the Government, somebody’s wife has been murdered somewhere, a church in Bomet called Bethel is beating worshippers and somebody is running away without clothes to the Indian Ocean. That is what we have glorified. 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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