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"content": "Thank you Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. I am not a military person, but I am a Kenyan who cares about the image of this country internationally. 1088 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES May 2, 2007 Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it appears that while the rest of Kenyans sit back hoping that our international relations and foreign affairs are doing well, there are people who are actually working towards promoting the integrity of Kenya. However, there are some fishy things that go on out there. This is something that many Kenyans do not know. When some of us struggle hard out there, people look at us in amazement and say, \"You are from Kenya!\" Comments are made about us and one does not really understand why those comments are being made. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir let me congratulate this delegation which seems to have been assembled in a very professional way. In Kenya, today, we do not seem to respect our professions and our professionals. We do not seem to respect our professions and our professionals. When they have done a job, the rest of us, who do not even know anything about it, begin to make a mockery of their work. I am just imagining the ship sitting in Spain with the Kenyan flag floating at sea and the same people saying: \"Those are the Kenyans who produce runners who do us proud. We are so proud to see Kenyans run. Is this a country which actually behaves in this manner?\" It is true that the media goes with what they are fed with. However, let me congratulate Dr. Chris Murungaru who has stated that they knew what they were doing, and that the truth eventually will prevail and set us free. I hope, as Kenyans, we can begin to move forward and do things in a professional way. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am also looking at the amount of money we are going to pay. I then think of the children who are unable to afford secondary school fees. That money could be used to pay school fees for these students. It could enable schools to release the certificates which are being held in schools. The detention of certificates render many children imprisoned because they cannot get training or jobs. This is money we are going to spend unnecessarily. I hope that we shall learn from this experience and try to do things professionally. I hope that other committees can do the same. I would like to urge this committee to take on the issue of the forensic science laboratory, which Dr. Murungaru mentioned. We are sure that we need a forensic science laboratory. Young people want to study forensic science. If Kenya does not get the forensic laboratory, we are going to find ourselves in a lot of trouble. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is amazing that with the length of shoreline we have, we do not know how to use the waters. We have left them to foreigners! With all the terrorism, Kenya is in a very vulnerable situation. We are surrounded by areas of insecurity. Right now, we have very many refugees on our soil. Our waters are just open and nobody is able to defend us should we be attacked. Therefore, we would like to support the Kenya Navy. I want to tell this House that when we have cases of drowning in Nairobi, and there is a special case in Butere where a young man drowned in a quarry, we have to seek the services of the Kenya Navy officers from Mombasa. We need to support our institutions. We have had long standing institutions. We need to recognise our professionals and give them support. We also need to be careful to promote and preserve the integrity and the image of this country. I would like to urge my colleagues and other Kenyans who go out there to do contractual work for this country that, Kenya needs her imagine preserved, and the rest of us, as citizens, count on them. I know that when Maj-Gen Nkaisserry becomes the Minister for Defence, he will restore the image of Kenya. Thank you Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir."
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