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"content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support this Motion. My names are Kiraitu Murungi. I am the Member of Parliament for South Imenti Constituency. I would like to thank the people of South Imenti for electing me for the fourth time to represent them in this Parliament. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I must say that I am very excited to be a Member of the Tenth Parliament. I am very happy to see my old friends here. Indeed, when we first came to Parliament in 1992, we were very excited as young Members. We wanted to bring very radical changes to this country. I am very happy to see that we are back with many of those who were elected in 1992, including yourself, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker; Professor Anyang'-Nyong'o on the other side, hon. James Orengo, the Prime Minister-designate and many others. I hope the dream that we had for this country in 1992 and which over time we have struggled to realise in very difficult circumstances would be realised during this Tenth Parliament. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, first and foremost, let me congratulate His Excellency the President for making an excellent Address to this House and setting the agenda for the nation, in fact, in a beautiful way. The key message in the President's Address was national healing. It is in that context that we would like to congratulate both His Excellency the President and the Prime Minister-designate for signing the historic Accord which has brought to an end the uncertainty and violence that this country has witnessed since the elections that were held in December, 2007. While we are celebrating the signing of this historic Accord, we should not forget that this is not the first time that the Prime Minister-designate, His Excellency the President and the Vice- President and Minister for Home Affairs, Mr. Kalonzo Musyoka, have worked together. We were with them again in January, 2003, in the same Government. I hope we would learn from the mistakes that were made then so that this accord does not break. I think the greatest challenge that we have is, first of all, honesty and humility as leaders of this nation. Every time you go into an arrangement and you try to find out from that agreement what is in it for me; that is the first mistake we make. I think we should learn to sacrifice ourselves for the benefit of the people of this country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for me, this violence has really opened my eyes. I did not know that there was so much anger and hatred between us in this country. When I saw children being burnt in a church in Eldoret, I, for the first time, realised that we really do not understand the country in which we live. We have to address the root causes of this anger and violence. This is because you cannot tell the people who were burning each other's houses yesterday now to embrace each other and love each other. Well, they may do so, but inside them, the grievances still remain. We have to address those grievances, if we have to have a lasting peace and security in this country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we need a radical transformation of our politics. For the last 40 years, we have been pretending that we are one nation called Kenya but, indeed, we are not. We now understand that we have 43 ethnic groups. There was one which was discovered last week! Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, you are a member of your ethnic---- Our challenge is to kenyanise Kenyans, so that we start seeing ourselves as members of one country called Kenya. One of the things that have divided us is the feeling that there are some people who enjoy and others who suffer. This is in terms of either where you come from or your social class. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I can connect especially with members of the Luo community. In 1992, I spent sometime in Nyanza and the rest of Kenya, campaigning for the late 84 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES March 12, 2008"
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