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"speaker_name": "Mr. Bett",
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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is being said that the violence was planned! I want to say emphatically that it was not! If it was, then the police force was dead asleep. If something was planned, where was the National Security Intelligence Service (NSIS), the chiefs, the DOs and March 25, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 385 DCs, who are all over the place? They never heard of the plan to cause chaos and mayhem. Somebody somewhere is telling untruths. That person is the one who is saying that it was planned. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to offer another solution! The stealing of the votes was planned! If that is what somebody wants to hear, let us also say the opposite and understand it fairly in one way or the other. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, that is now the past, and we must not harp on it until Jesus Chris comes back. Life must continue. This country is waiting for the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission. With that, we hope that the issues that are being discussed casually, and being imputed unfairly on other people, will be discussed conclusively and comprehensively. Therefore, we will be able to know who caused all this mayhem and why it happened. Otherwise, if we continue to address it casually, we will always be fighting after every five years. We do not want a repeat of that. We must handle it now; we must tackle it head on, face it squarely and completely resolve it, otherwise we will continue seeing our people killing themselves. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, land invokes emotive feelings in people. The issue of land must be addressed in a sober manner. It should not be addressed with reference to a few individuals or communities. We must look at it this way: who was where before the colonialists came into this country. When they were removed, how were they removed? Were they removed with their properties or by an agreement? If there was an agreement, what did it say? To my knowledge, the agreement was very simple: we occupy your land and after we are through, you will come back to your land. It never happened after Independence. People came from elsewhere and occupied the land in contravention of what was agreed between the white settlers and the indigenous owners of that land. We want that to be addressed quickly. That can only be done within a new constitutional dispensation. The other area which was discussed earlier was the provision of seeds and fertilizer to the farmers. It cannot be linked to the issue of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), because rain is not waiting for us to think that way. We must provide the seeds now to the farmers who are able to till their land and plant what we need for tomorrow. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the people in camps will require food when they come out. If we do not assist the farmers, who are able to grow food today, even the IDPs will suffer together with the farmers who are not in camps today. We must not link the two, or link them with the visit of the President to the Rift Valley. He is not going to perform a miracle, so that the matter will be resolved instantly when he will be there together with the Prime Minister-designate. Let us be pragmatic and deal with the issue as it is now. Let us provide seeds and fertiliser to the farmers who are able to till their land and there shall be food for those who are in IDP camps. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have just come from a political fiasco. We have also come from an examination fiasco. We are going to another fiasco. That is what my colleague, Mr. J.K. Kilonzo, talked about, the Safaricom Initial Public Offer (IPO). We need to ask ourselves: Who are the key players in the Safaricom IPO? The Chairman of Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE) is the owner of Dyer and Blair Bank, which is a broking house. He is also the chief advisor to the Capital Markets Authority (CMA). The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CMA is a former employee of Dyer and Blair Bank. I think the man who is on top of these things is one Mr. Jimnah Mbaru. We cannot allow this country to be that way in terms of share brokerage. Share buying and share trading is being handled by one man through proxies all round. I want to join my colleagues, and Kenyans, in saying that this issue must not---"
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