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"content": "Your Excellency, there is, however, credit which is exclusively and deservedly yours; namely transformation of Kenyan infrastructure including superhighways, improvement of the Port of Mombasa, growing of our airports, originating and acting on Vision 2030, launching LAPSET at Lamu to name, but a few. Your Excellency, as you pilot through your final year of Presidency, I – and I believe I have the concurrence of all hon. Members – wish you God’s blessings that you continue to have and live a healthy life. I urge and pray that your successor, when the time comes, shall continue to execute your vision. Your Excellency, hon. Members, as I come to conclude, allow me to acknowledge that as a country, we still have challenges that include insecurity; keeping our nationhood; seizing and harnessing opportunities at our disposal; ensuring equitable distribution of all our resources and organizing free, fair and peaceful elections next time round. So as to service the aspirations and expectations of the people of Kenya, we need to remain awake to these challenges among others and to do all that it takes to address them. Your Excellency, hon. Members, finally, allow me to share very briefly my philosophy of change as is apparently with us in Kenya. You change for two reasons. Either you learn enough that you want to change, or you have been hurt so much that you have to change. I want to pose a question. How does one become a butterfly? And I answer this way. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar. Hon. Members, we say goodbye to some of what we love and travel to new territories; that we must do. If we do not do so, we can expect merely a long wearing away of ourselves and eventual extinction. I want you to imagine if a caterpillar insisted on remaining a caterpillar, it will wear out and it will die. We must learn to view change as a natural phenomenon. We need to anticipate and plan for it. The future is ours to determine. The future is not an abstraction out there in the unforeseen. It is the present that will shape the future. What we do today will define the Kenya of hereafter. We do not have to have Kwame Nkrumah resurrect to remind us that “It is right and proper that we should know about our past for just as the future moves from the present, so the present has emerged from the past.” That is Kwame Nkrumah in Accra on 10th July, 1953. I urge that we constantly, consistently and continuously ask ourselves what will happen if, or better still, how can we make it happen."
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