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    "content": "honors by these individuals--- It is because of this realization and in line with the new constitutional dispensation, we intend to enact this so that even the President is obligated- -- One of the functions of the President is to award national honors. We need to establish the mechanism so that it does not become an open-ended document that is given freely to every Tom, Dick and Harry and without meeting the basic qualifications. It is because of this that those individuals who are to be entitled to those national awards should exhibit exemplary qualities. They should also demonstrate exemplary acts; they should clearly pronounce to all the people of Kenya their achievements and heroism. They should demonstrate that, indeed, they have done something so unique for the Republic of Kenya that they are entitled to a national award. Those individuals must have also shown sacrifice for the interests of the Republic of Kenya and for the people of Kenya. If an individual has exhibited all these attributes regardless of all other considerations, that individual is entitled to an award. These awards must also go to individuals who have shown bravery, exhibited patriotism and those who have shown outstanding leadership in the management of the affairs of Kenyans; also are individuals who in their public or private lives have attempted to contribute to the betterment of the lives of the Republic of Kenya nationally, at the county level and even at the village level. It is these brave men and women whom we need to reward. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we need also to reward some of the individuals who have done well in the sphere of economics. These are the entrepreneurs and great business minds, so that Kenyans as an investment hub, as a regional economic block, as a premier nation, as a humanitarian hub, as a security hub, as an infrastructure hub and as a very important nation not only in eastern and central Africa but in the whole world is projected properly. This is not possible without having great economic minds. These individuals need to be appreciated, recognized and given national honors. Mr. Speaker, Sir, there are also individuals who have done very well in tourism, security and scientific innovations. These individuals are the ones that we really need to appreciate and reward. There are individuals who have done well in the sphere of academics. Have you heard recently of some of our professors and best scientists being rewarded? We always see a list of political mediocres being given some of the best national awards. How will we encourage our scientists without this? It is because of this that we need to put in place mechanisms to reward those who have excelled in public administration, governance, sports and in all other fields, so that, as a country, we progress. I want to appreciate the role of those advocates of multipartism because before 1991, some of these acts were not even possible in the Republic of Kenya, and in places where I come from, which was under emergency rule. It is because of their sacrifice that today all of us are seeing the benefits of the rule of law. We need to entrench this and take it further, so that the man or woman who will be elected as the next president of the Republic of Kenya on 4th March will be governed by the rule of law but not by the wishes"
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