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    "content": "children and taken away your animals, you do not tell that person, please, let us sit down and talk about it. Let us be diplomatic. We do not do that. If it were I, I would take the nearest weapon and handle the matter before I move on to diplomacy. As we are taking the diplomatic approach in this case, the Ugandans, it was reported that they uprooted beacons in the area. While that is happening, River Omo has been diverted and is now threatening Lake Turkana. Lake Turkana with time may dry out because the Ethiopians have diverted the river. I remember sometime in the 1970s when the former dictator of Uganda, Mr. Amin, threatened us by saying that the western part of Kenya belonged to Uganda. Mr. Kenyatta came out in his true colours and told Amin that if at all they were going to meet, they would meet in Uganda and not in Kenya. That sorted out the matter, once and for all. This issue of diplomacy which Ugandans---They started with a few policemen, then the soldiers, and then they hosted their flag. We are still insisting that we use diplomacy. These people are warmongers. Warmongers only understand one language, that is war, and nothing else, not diplomacy. The other day, they said that they would remove their flag but they still have their soldiers there. What the hell are Ugandan soldiers doing in Kenya? That suggests that we are weak. It is unfortunate that our soldiers have not been tested anyway, apart from a few of them claiming to have been peacekeepers outside this country. They spend too much time in the barracks. They should have gone out to protect us. If we had achieved constitutional reforms for this country, the Judiciary, the police force and other things would be taken care of. However, we blame the Ninth Parliament for not doing enough for this country. The Ninth Parliament had all the opportunities to reform the constitution. It had all the opportunity to bring about all the reforms we are talking about. In fact, the problem we had after the last elections is because of the last Parliament. The last Government gave us a lopsided Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) which presided over an election that never was. If at all the last Parliament did its work and gave us the Constitution that Kenyans wanted, I do not think that Kenya would be having problems today. I do not think that we would be having these squabbles between two Principals, where both are trying to outdo each other. If you compare the last Parliament with Moi’s Regime, you will find that Mr. Moi brought in Section 2A so that he would control Kenyans. It is the same Mr. Moi that gave us the Inter-Party Parliamentary Group (IPPG) which is the document that gave us an ECK that handled elections in 2002. That was one of the best elections that we have ever had in this country. Mr. Moi should be praised for that. When it came to the elections of 2007, we let Kenyans go to war, killing one another. So, Mr. Moi in that case was a wonderful man for this country. I hope that the non-reformists that we have amongst us here today--- There are non-reformists amongst us who do not want a new Constitution and when you talk of reforms in the judiciary, it is as if you are removing their homes or robbing them of their property. It is very unfortunate."
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