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    "content": "brothers, we will have lost as a nation. Therefore, it is the responsibility of the Members of Parliament and the leadership of this country to address and manage the process of reconciliation. Let us do this passionately because that is our responsibility as leadership. The people we lead speak about what we do. How do we relate within ourselves here? What do we tell each other when we are engaging, whether in private or public matters? We need to help our young people understand. Cohesion would have been a very easy thing to achieve if we followed the rules of an integrated society from the school level. Every time we want ascend to leadership, we use our communities to antagonize other people so as to ascend to leadership. However, when people sometimes make such mistakes, they take cover of their community. When things are upside down, we say that we are being finished as a community. However, when one was committing a crime, he committed it as an individual. It is high time we realized that a Kenyan is a Kenyan regardless of where they come from. The people who are in positions are the ones who get involved in actions that divide this country. For example, why would I be working in the Ministry of Trade and have every body aligned to me from top to about the third level from one community? This gives people ample time to feel hurt. That tension will never cease. As Kenyans, we should embrace and do what is perfectly right. This job of reconciliation is just as easy as child play. However, when we get to positions of leadership, what we do and even those of us who wanted true change, when we got into positions, we forgot what we were fighting for, knowing for a fact, that it is us who rally our people to either fight or reconcile. Conveniently, one wants to be a hero in his own community by talking about our resources forgetting that those resources require to be taken to a market and to get to that market, one needs to use a road which passes through another community. This is a zero sum game. We need to grow to be nationalists. I like Nigerians. They may be having their own weaknesses but when a Nigerian is out of Nigeria, they will tell you about their country. They tell you how they do things in Nigeria. I would also love if Kenyans walked up straight with pride wherever they are and embraced their fellow brothers, sisters and cousins and hold each other’s hand and bond. As I said, the resource bank of this country is enormous. We could change ourselves into a first class country in less than 10 years if our policies, attitudes, pronouncements, behavior and how we walk can make this country a wonderful place to be in. Allow me to say that this must start with us, as the leadership. If we do not do it, no one will do it for us. I think it is critical that when this Committee comes into operation, we will give them all the support and embrace them. Let us look at Kenyans in a brotherly way. I said that we lack love in this country. People want to be selfish and bite more than they can chew. However, remember that God gave us wonderful resources, enough for all of us. That is the serious source of conflict. When that is balanced, we will live in peace. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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