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    "content": "Kenyans do not want to know who wants what. Kenyans want to be provided with services. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have been reactionary. Every time something happens, we go there with our choppers and cars and address the situation. We had the fire in Nakuru and the other time we had the killings in Mathira. We do not address the problem. We just go there to show off. We go and talk to the people down there without addressing the problem and then we get into our choppers and cars and come back to Nairobi without addressing the problems facing the people down there. Like the Mathira issue, the Minister of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security did not even want to know what happened. He just went there, addressed people, got into his chopper and flew back to Nairobi. Has that problem been solved? It has not! So, we do not want reactionary leaders. We want leaders who are going to govern this country and develop it. I want to thank the Minister for Water and Irrigation for being able to, at least, develop the water sector, especially dams. It is a pity that this country, after 40 years of independence, we cannot provide water to our people. We cannot even have desalination plants in a place like Mombasa and yet we have an ocean. A country like Dubai can provide her citizens with water. Why not us? We have arable land but it has been very difficult for us to provide our people with food. It is high time that we devise ways of harvesting rain water and put up desalination projects which will help this country to be self-sufficient in terms of food production. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, infrastructure is very important for this country. Where I come from, the businesses have not been supported, yet they have been paying a lot of taxes to this country. It is important that we support our business people so that they can be more productive. Infrastructure in this country has gone down. It is high time that the Minister for Finance provided money for the roads so that we can develop this country. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, with regard to the reforms that are talked, it is very important that we talk about reformers. Are these people reformists? We have pretenders than reformists! I want to thank the previous speaker who said that there are people who have been in this Parliament for 40 years. They have not done anything. It is high time that we talked to our voters so that they can bring a new crop of leaders to this Parliament so that we can develop this country. This country is greater than parliamentarians. This country is greater than the President, Prime Minister and all of us. The 38 million Kenyans are bigger than the leadership of this country. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Judiciary should be reformed. The President in his Speech said that. It is good to reform the Judiciary. How are we reforming the Judiciary? Are we bringing the right people into the Judiciary? There is a case of one man who was working at the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) who has been appointed a judge, yet he was involved in cases of corruption. It is a pity that we keep recycling people who have been in this system instead of replacing them with people who are going to bring about reforms in this country."
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