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    "content": "Your Excellency, hon. Members, this House passed very important pieces of legislation that are crucial to the reforms that the Coalition Government committed itself to last year. The House went further, through the Parliamentary Select Committee on the Constitutional Review Act, to put in place, early this year, some organs of reform. These include the Committee of Experts, the Interim Electoral Commission of Kenya, among others. The public have been very keen to see these organs take shape because they mean a lot for the stability of this country. During the last recess, very harsh words were exchanged in public about requisite reforms in the Judiciary and the Police Force with far reaching consequences. There is nothing unique in the problems that Kenya faces today. Urgent reforms are needed in this country if the Kenyan nation is to continue as the geographical, political and physical entity that it is. What the others did is not rocket science; they simply underwent reforms and were able to be stable, peaceful and prosperous. Why do we want to reinvent the wheel? We cannot avoid this prescription. The world is replete with examples as to the fate of those that believed otherwise. For example, the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and nearer home, Somalia, among others. It does not matter how difficult and chaotic things may seem to be in Kenya today, but if we negotiate and debate our differences in a free and peaceful atmosphere, we shall definitely legislate long lasting reforms that are acceptable to our people and important for maintaining their unity and dignity. This whole phenomenon is like a combination lock. All we need to do is push the numbers in the right sequence. It does not matter who pushes those numbers. If we get the right sequence, the combination lock will open."
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