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    "content": "Language is nothing but memory. So, we have to deal with this situation very, very clearly without pretending that we are advising the county governments. County Governments need to know that they have weaknesses. Instead of them spending a lot of money on entertainment and trips here and there, they need to know what they do not know and they must know. That is the only way we shall be dealing with people who are responsible; people who understand and people who are capable of competing with the National Assembly and also with the Senate, because these are the type of people we need. I used to advise most people at home who tried to vie to go to the Lower House or the Senate that; “please, I wish I were you; I would start by becoming an MCA because you are young people, you are capable of going up.” But, you see, politics, being the way it is, you have to bring your own friends to support you. You support your own friends, and it does not matter whether he has any knowledge or not; you just want to see him there. So, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I think this Motion is just to remind us that we have a responsibility and the county governments have a responsibility of making sure that their people understand which direction this country is taking. We have been talking about the Far East and South East Asia; in 1974, Kenya was ahead of Korea and many other countries, including Singapore, but these guys managed the speed of their corruption. But here in this country, we sort of took up corruption as one of our norms. In fact, if you look at one of the books I wrote some years ago, we are almost made to believe that corruption is part of our life; and I think that is the most deadly thing to think about. You cannot have your cake and eat it; you cannot adopt corruption as your main virtue and then think the country will develop; it is not possible! So, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I think that if we have to look at this Motion again, we will amend it completely and not leave it as it is, because it is actually asking MCAs to do what they ought to be doing. As I said here before when we were debating almost a similar thing – although not the same Motion – I said that we are not going to take these people anywhere unless we spend a lot of money training them; give them enough training to be able to understand. In fact, what is the new Constitution aiming at? It aims at creating 48 governments, and all these governments are going to be independent in their own way – not that they will secede politically – but the whole idea is to make sure that the entire country will now stop complaining about marginalisation The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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