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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other thing that I feel I should speak about is that there is Prof. Ngotho wa Kariuki. During my university days as a don, this is somebody that I worked with very closely not in the same discipline. I was a mathematician and he was in the Faculty of Commerce. He is a scholar and he demonstrated his ability to carry out his duties both as a teacher and a researcher taking into account that in the academic world, a person is well known not only by teaching but basically by carrying out fundamental research. That is what makes somebody to be called a scholar. But the more fundamental point is what he actually did when he left the university. He left university to set up his own private firm in accounting. At the same time, he did not forget that ours is a dynamic society. Therefore, he needed to align himself with the process of reform in this country at the time when we had a one-party system and things were extremely difficult. He was one of those who spoke loudly, clearly and courageously. He had to go through moments of suffering. He was put in. What I am saying here is that we should pay tribute to this Committee chaired by Mr. Abdikadir for recognizing that there needs to be somebody in this Board who knows what reform means and the suffering that has gone into it. The biggest problem in this country is that we tend to thrush away people with experience and who have made a contribution in this country. It is unlike many countries where those who have made a contribution to the country are normally honoured, given places and recognized on public occasions. In so doing, we set up those people to be role models and, therefore, our young people can say that when they grow up, they want to be like so-and-so and they aim that. We have to change the culture where people do a lot of work and make sacrifices for the betterment of this country but when they step aside, we burry them. Things do not work like that. Societies work on the basis that those who have been role models, who have made their contribution and are part of a history which is told to young people are remembered."
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