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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion. Right from the outset, I stand to oppose the adjournment of this House. This is because if you draw up a score card on the performance of this House and highlight six issues: Security, democracy, education, health, infrastructure and corruption, the results will be that this House has done fairly very little. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with regard to security, yesterday, the United Nations passed a resolution that IGAD countries should produce a peace support mission and send it to Somalia. It is the responsibility of this House to endorse such a move in order to enable our country to be secure, especially at our border with Somalia. If we go on recess and yet the UN has put this onerous task on this country, what will really happen? We must admit that we have performed very poorly on that matter. With regard to terrorism, I am a delegate of the United Nations Conference on Terrorism. I am also a member of the UN body that is in charge of disarmament. Recently, I am happy to report to this House, I was elected the Vice-President of the International Parliamentarians of the Forum on Small Arms. The problem of proliferation of small arms in Africa and especially in the Great Lakes Region is enormous. Before we go on recess, this House--- I am glad that the Minister in charge of internal security is vocal with regard to this issue. The Government has continued to disarm our people while the other countries are not doing the same. Now, we cannot go on recess before we establish policies on this matter. We cannot have development unless there is security in our country. With regard to democracy, one hon. Member in this House spoke very arrogantly about \"political babies\". There are no \"political babies\" in this country and we must stop those kinds of abuses. We are getting mad about those abuses by some hon. Members in the Cabinet. It really has to stop! There are no \"political babies\" and there shall never be any in this House. When you talk about democracy, it is actually this Government which has killed democracy. This Government cannot stand on its own without the pillar of hon. Members of KANU who have joined it. If today, the Chair makes a ruling that hon. Members in the Opposition cannot join the Government, this Government would not be sitting where it is seated today. How can we then go on recess before we resolve the issue of democracy in this country? You saw hon. Members run for their lives during the recent fracas. Even my car was hit by a teargas canister just because the Government has lost the moral authority to address issues to do with democracy. The Government has gone out of its way to use some Ministers to do certain things against their colleagues in the same Government and yet they claim that the Government is not involved. The Registrar of Societies is an officer of the Government. How could she be defiant against the law if, at all, she is not under the influence of an authority above her? These are the issues we need to be addressed with regard to democracy. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have been talking about the Vision 2030. How do December 7, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 4295 we expect to attain our vision if the Government does not employ teachers so that we have quality education in our schools? The Government does not even pay the professors in our universities well so that they can have the Vision 2030 properly articulated. Really, how are we expected to achieve the Vision 2030? The Government's money was issued to constituencies that are friendly to the Government. All of us in the Opposition, for example, Kajiado Central Constituency was allocated money from the donor community. Is that not corruption? Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those remarks, I beg to oppose."
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