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"content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move that this House do now adjourn until Tuesday the third of October, 2006. Mr. Speaker, Sir, may I take up from where you left. You specifically addressed the issue of Committees. May I deal with the whole House. We have 365 days in a year, and our calendar gives us only about 70 days in a year to be in the Chamber. But most of the time, we have no quorum at all. Although there has been an improvement in the transaction of business, particularly where Bills are concerned, this has happened only by default, in that none of the few Members that were in the House when there was no quorum raised the question of quorum. We have passed some very serious Bills with about 12 or 15 Members present and sitting. This does not just annoy those who travel from Wajir and Kendu Bay, but the whole country, when they realise that they have paid their taxes in order to give us a fairly good income, but we do not appreciate this. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I just want, with all humility, to request my colleagues to take the work of Parliament very seriously. Many times, we have talked of equitable distribution of resources and, yet we are not here at the time when some of the Votes are being discussed. So, I appeal to the Members that now that we have got a break and we are going to rest out there, let us reflect and take matters seriously when we return to the House. 2606 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES August 3, 2006 Mr. Speaker, Sir, recently, the country has been full of politics of negativity. I urge my colleagues to now change and move to the politics of patriotism. There has been almost self-hate in this country, where we tend to denigrate ourselves simply because of the actions of may be a few people. When one or two people go against the law, it does not mean that the rest of the people are criminals. I urge my colleagues to respect the institutions that have been set up and let us allow them to do their work to help us govern this country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, let us go out there and give leadership. Let us discourage breaking of the law. In the prisons, congestion is too much, endemic. This is simply because we are not displaying the leadership that is required. When we go out there, we do not discuss causes, but instead discuss individuals. When we do that, we do so with emotions of hate. This translates to the other people. The jails are full of people who are accused of personal assault. This can be attributed to ourselves as leaders. Mr. Speaker, Sir, let us also help to implement the Community Service Order. I was talking to several magistrates recently and they were telling me that they are not able to implement the Community Service Order fully because even when they want to release the inmates, there is no work to do. We can save a lot of money with CDF by simply getting in touch with magistrates,"
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