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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I stand to very reluctantly support this Motion mainly because I think that Kenyans believe that we are one of the Parliaments in this world which has passed the least number of Bills. We need to prove to Kenyans that we are capable of passing many Bills. It is for that reason that I support this Motion very reluctantly. I would have wished to see this House continuing for another two weeks so that we can do the legislative part of our job before going home. I would have liked us to pass a few more Bills that will help this country. When you look at the list of Bills that have been brought to this House by the Government for us to pass, they are very few! You will recall that when the President opened this Parliament at the beginning of this Session, he said that he gave us 25 Bills last year and we only passed eight Bills. The blame was put squarely on Parliament. It is not fair because had Parliament been given more time, we would have passed more than eight Bills. The impression being created is that we like fighting. It is not always true that we like fighting. We need time, and there is nothing better than to be given two more weeks so that we can pass a few more Bills. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to urge the Government that, as we come back in the next Session, it should manage the affairs of Parliament better. The reason why this Parliament is being blamed out there is because the Government is not managing the affairs of Parliament properly. It is controlling and bringing a few Motions at a time. The Government should bring many Motions at a time, so that we can pass them. That way, Kenyans will know that we are working. I was overseas recently and our Parliament was being laughed at because we earn very high salaries but we do very little when, in fact, it is not the responsibility of this Parliament. That is why I am very reluctant to support this Motion to allow us to go home because I would have liked us to put in two more weeks. That does not mean that I do not want to go home. I want to go home and work for the people of Gachoka. I want to go home and serve the people of Mount Kenya East because it is important that we are seen on the ground. We should go to the people and explain to them what Kenyan politics is all about. It is very important for people to understand this before there is misrepresentation of what is happening in the national politics of Kenya. So, I look forward to this opportunity of going August 3, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2619 back to the field, not only to my constituency, but to the region and explain what we are trying to do as part of the national politics. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I hope that the following will not happen during our recess:- (i) I hope that there will be no Steadman Group opinion polls report. We know and we have come to the conclusion that those are cooked-up opinion polls. In a civilized environment, there is a law that controls opinion polls. For example, we should know who commissioned those opinion polls. If we do not know who commissioned them, then a group of individuals could sit down and create results. I wish to confirm very strongly that I believe that those opinion polls are manipulated. It is important that a new law to regulate opinion polls is passed. When we resume, I would like to urge the Attorney-General to bring a law that controls the use of opinion polls, especially just before elections. This is important and it is done in all major countries. Now that we are getting to that level of listening to opinion polls, I want to urge him to bring that law quickly so that we can know who pays for those opinion polls, how those samples are taken and how they arrive at the conclusions that we normally get. (ii) I hope that in our absence, there will be no more commissions of inquiry that will waste our resources. (iii) I hope that in our absence, the Government will have a good law on Kenyans abroad, so that they can be allowed to vote in the next General Elections, be allowed to have dual citizenship and tax relief on the investment that they are bringing to this country. (iv) I hope that when we resume, the Attorney-General will bring a Bill to forgive Kenyans who stole money before and who continue stealing, so that they can return it in an amnesty form. We forgive those who stole our money and we hope that they will return a lot of it so that we can use it for the benefit of Kenyans because those commissions of inquiry and legal cases will never come to an end. (v) I hope that the Money Laundering Bill will be introduced to Parliament so that we stop using our banks and institutions for laundering drug money and other dirty monies. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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