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    "content": "morning and you tell him to safeguard the big buildings that you have here in Kenya, he will think that you are dreaming. Madam Temporary Speaker, time has come when we must look back and ask ourselves: Are we on the right track? Are we here to stabilize this nation or see it falling down, like it is happening almost everywhere? I thought that it would not take us 50 years to fix the problem that I found when I first became a Member of Parliament in 1963. If you look at my concern, in my own writings, you will find that very little has changed. We are multiplying human beings but not multiplying the consumption. We have nothing to feed our people with and yet, we have the best soils in this country. Like one of the Senators said, time has come for us to pick soils from all over and make sure that we know what kind of crop that we need to produce where. We have been overtaken by businessmen and women. I am sorry to bring in women in this dirty game of taking money from Kenyans without fear. Every year, we import sugar. Do we ever ask ourselves: who are these people who import sugar? It is a cartel of not more than five people and that continues to happen before our face. None of us has the capability or ability to question this kind of thing. That is why I was saying that the Senate’s job is to penetrate and destroy those clusters through written and statutory laws. We have to pass and amend our laws, to make sure that some people who have messed this country are really straightened. But we are not going to advocate that they be jailed, because that was the policy at that time. These people did not care about any other person or thing except the money that they received from their trade. Madam Temporary Speaker, although we accept that capitalism is the mother of all the evil in the business world, we still believe that there is management. We need serious and critical management to make sure that capitalism is controlled in a way that it does not destroy the mushrooming of our economy, because of the production. But for those men and women who believe that money can take them somewhere-- I have been in this game for quite sometime and at times made some money. I have seen people with a lot of money disappearing from this world. I visited my friend, Mobutu Sese Seko, and he asked me to prepare to be flown to his farm which was 40 million acres. He wanted me to see his cows and goats and helicopter, but I declined because he did not understand what sort of a person I am. I had written about him and did not want very much to associate with him. Madam Temporary Speaker, therefore, there are so many things that we need to be extremely clear about in our minds. I want to repeat what I said earlier; that if we fail, as Senators, to put this country up and behave like many in the Lower House, I think that our time needs to be shortened."
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