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    "content": "job at the Judiciary, this is what they should do to get the job. Let us not cheat ourselves. This country is very important and too great for any of us to destroy it. With regard to the issue of the youth, there is money being given out now to the youth. We are Members of Parliament and yet we do not know who is handling this money. We do not know who is handling the Women Enterprise Development Fund money. Why is there secrecy as to how this money is given out? Why is it that Members of Parliament who have been elected by the communities where they come from do not have the locus standi to handle finances the way we do with the CDF? We must be honest with ourselves. It is high time that everything was put on the table. Let us walk the talk and talk the walk. Let the Government come out and involve Members of Parliament. Let the Ministers tell us who is handling the money and why they have given the money to banks, under what conditions and how they will help us. The youth of this country expect this House to come and solve the problems which the youth are facing! This country needs the unity of purpose! This country needs us! This country needs leadership where we are no longer going to start passing the buck. Let us all agree that we will try to come together and bring a new Constitution and that Agenda 4 is going to be sorted out once and for all. This will enable us to create a level playing field in this country so that Kenyans can continue feeling proud; and so that Kenyans can be answerable to their God knowing that they love this country legitimately. Let me give you an example. In the President’s Speech, he said that other countries are competitors of our county! In ten years, look at what Rwanda has done; their streets are clean, their airport is clean, the people are answerable; the President of Rwanda has just arrested 12 Permanent Secretaries who are corrupt and yet their human rights societies and their civil societies are not complaining about it because the President of Rwanda is serious about corruption! We should deal with this problem from the grassroots and then come up to the middle level, then to the district level and all the way to the Government Ministries. There is something wrong! There is a dysfunctionality, which we must straighten out as Kenyans! We must come out and be honest. If we used to have these bad habits before, we must stop! The buck must stop with the President, the Prime Minister, the Vice-President and all of us, as hon. Members of Parliament! It is true that you will find hon. Members of Parliament talking about corruption in the House here. However, if you ask them how they are spending their CDF money at the grassroots level, nobody knows. So, the public does not even believe us! We are talking about other people being corrupt but when a Member of Parliament is asked how he or she has been spending their CDF money, he or she is offended and will start complaining. Let us be the first people in this country to be open and clear about how we are spending our resources! Let us be the examples that the people at the grassroots level are going to look up to and say: “Yes, these are good leaders and they are going to take our country places”. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, before I finish, one of the issues that have been very sensitive in this country is insecurity, and many of you have asked here: “”Why we are we mistreating our police officers? Why are we mistreating our Administration Police Officers?” Like a colleague said here, you cannot take a police officer and put him in a 20 feet by 10 feet room with his seven children and expect this man to have the respect he needs when he is serving his country! Let us be honest with ourselves! Let us create an independent commission which will look at the police service,"
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