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    "id": 287541,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Keynan",
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        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, in the light of the danger that we face from this international declaration, there is need to come up with legislation that will be constitutional friendly so that this issue of open ended approach to dealing with radicalism is reduced or eliminated. There is need to legislate and come up with different legislations in tandem with the current Constitution to address some of these security challenges. It is a reality that this must be done because we need to exist; we need to have a peaceful nation. We need to have a prosperous country. We need to have a country where all visitors and citizens will feel secure whenever they come to its borders. Finally, there is a serious issue. Traditionally, we used to have patriotism and nationalism. As a result of the serious developing ethnic or negative ethnicity, these days what we see is a new phenomenon called biological nationalism; that you are always right to the extent of limiting your confines of imagination within your tribe. Is this the way we want to do it? Our politics has been tribalized, ethnisized and trivialized and regionalized. Is this the kind of legacy that we want to give to our children? Is this the kind of thing that we want to leave to this beautiful nation? It is because of this that we must think outside the box. I want to urge the political class and the Kenyan citizen – in particular the political class – that they must get out of their ethnic based cocoons. We must think rationally! We must think as Kenyans. In this country we have many institutions that have done us proud. Our sportsmen and women have done us proud internationally, all over. How are we going to encourage them to move on with their heads up if some of these things whenever somebody opens his TV internationally, they say this is Kenya? These are issues that we must address as leaders and since this is out time and since God has allowed us; God has given us the opportunity--- The Almighty God has given us an opportunity today as part of the political class to govern this country. We must always be conscious that one day we will be asked: “When we were there, what did we do for the citizens of the Republic of Kenya? How did we help them in their governance structure? How did we help them in their adherence to the rule of law? How did we help them achieve economic prosperity? How did we help them in job creation?” These are issues that we must address, otherwise, our description as an economic power house; our description as a country governed by one of the most generous constitutional dispensations will only remain in theory. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, finally, the traditional definition of government structure has changed. In the old days we used to talk about the Executive, the Legislature and the Judiciary but right now we have other imagined arms of government. We have the members of the Fourth Estate and members of the Civil Society which now makes the traditional arms of government, three and other imagined arms of government. It is a reality and that is why today this country has one of the most open and vibrant media institutions. This is something that we are very proud of and this is because today the ruling class will always be on the focus and until we get our act in order and stand firm for the rights of Kenyans, our actions will be questioned today, tomorrow and the year after because Kenya is a godly nation. Kenya is a country that subscribes to the rule of law and also to the decrees of God. Whether one is a Christian, a Muslim, Hindu or whether it is African traditions, these are realities that we subscribe to. Having said this, I would like to move that this House adopts this report and call on Mr. C. Kilonzo to second the Motion."
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