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    "content": "Government, popularly brought into office by the Kenyan people and accepted as legitimate. Next time there is an election in this country, while the winners will be celebrating their victory, the losers will accept the results as legitimate. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the process we are involved in at the moment is a transition process from an authoritarian Presidential regime to a parliamentary democracy. It is a process that is not very easily discerned or understood by many people, least of all some of the envoys. I think it is important for the developed countries, to post envoys to this nation with intellectual capacity to analyse difficult situations and not to simplify complex problems. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I say this very earnestly because I know that transitional processes are always very difficult to discern and understand. The outcome of a transition is never known or determined aforethought. It is a product of a very convoluted process, which may make two steps forwards and one step backwards at certain times. When that one-step backwards is made, it does not mean that we are not advancing. We are advancing but having to overcome and deal with various contradictions that are characteristic of such transitional processes. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, those of us who have had the advantage of being elected to this House by the people of Kenya, should rise above the common rafts of popular faces which do not analyse or describe complex situations carefully but tend to whitewash them with simple phrases that may be emotionally pregnant but intellectually very empty. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I take it that the kind of discourses, discussions and struggles that are going on in this nation through this transitional process are very important. The National Accord is not an easy formula to implement for those who have authoritarian tendencies. Those who have authoritarian tendencies tend to view reality from the prison of a one-party system where things are easy to deal with, authority is easy to discern and decisions are simply made from one center. This nation, for many decades, was conditioned to one-party mentality where one person thinks for a whole nation, complex problems are reduced to simple solutions and therefore, where the nation is turned to a mass choir that sings for the one man who makes the decisions. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have entered into an era where every simple voice must be listened. The opinion of that voice is as important as the opinion of 1,000 other voices. Therefore, as we try to implement the National Accord and Reconciliation Accord, we should make it necessary for the authoritarian presidential system to be reduced of its powers. Many people will feel the lack of an authority above them and will think that the reduction of the powers of the presidency is leading to some kind of instability. I beg to submit that it is important that we hit at the core root cause of under- development in this nation. The core root of under-development in this nation is the authoritarian presidential system which has led to less discourse in this nation, tremendous waste of resources and talents; inefficiency in making decisions and, therefore, continued under-development of our nation. The so-called investors are not people who are averse to risks. Investors or entrepreneurs are people who can take risks but must be able to predict the outcome of their risks. The only way that investors can predict the outcome of their risks is if there is a rule of law. The rule of law is independent of individual decisions and subjective feelings and lays down a template"
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