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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think this Bill is coming at a time when everybody in Kenya needs to ask themselves; we voted for the Constitution in the year 2010 and on 27th of August, 2010, at 10.27 a.m., the Constitution was lifted up to pronounce that we have a new document that is going to guide the people of Kenya henceforth. And it was envisaged that from then on, all the excesses that had been exercised on the people of Kenya will cease and that we will lead our people in the 47 counties in a manner that will put the lives and properties of those people and the Republic of Kenya in the forefront. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the same fashion, it was also said that we were going to have a Deputy President and not a Vice President; we were going to have Cabinet Secretaries and not Ministers; and these people were supposed to be sourced from the private sector and not elected by the people. So, I concur with what Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale has put here on the issue of National Flags together with the amendments that are going to come in the Third Reading; that the flag, which is the symbol of the people of Kenya has to be flown by the His Excellency, the President and the Deputy President, who are in the Executive; and the Chief Justice who is in the Judiciary; while in the Legislature, we have the two Speakers – the Speaker of the Senate and the Speaker of the National Assembly. Anybody else below, really, if you critically look at what we are passing, they should not be there because the Cabinet Secretaries have been brought in to serve the Executive. So, for that reason, we should not jam the streets of Kenya or our cities with flags, with some of them running around, as we have heard, with chase cars just because Nairobi, which is the headquarters of the Executive is, is full of jam. So, everybody wants to open up the road for themselves. I think we need to be sober as we address this issue so that even the proviso that has been given down there by Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale that the Governor may also be entitled to fly a National Flag within their territory is also debatable. So, we are going to debate about it as to whether we need it or not. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Kenyans are known to give due respect as is required, but when you are saying that we need to go and develop the country through the 47 units, we do not mean we go and worship small tiny units again, as it has already been seen. At one time in July or August, we went to a county with Sen. Sang and I was the chief guest at a function that had been organized by the community there; it was an education matter – and I love education a lot. So, they came for me and on reaching there, the drama that unfolded was shocking because they said nobody talks last except the Governor because he is the “President” of the county; and this was not his function. So, it now brings in a very interesting scenario where a Governor may find himself idle, he then hears that there is a function somewhere, and intrudes. Then he wants everybody to know, through a lot of drama, how big is he. He even said his vehicle should be brought very near to the podium so that everybody could see the flag, because that is what they voted for. So, it was not even himself who was voted for, but the flag. It is not written anywhere that the Governor should go and show off or even fly a flag. So, we were all restrained and I really like the people who were in that audience who could not know what was happening. But those types of simple excesses which manifest themselves at the wrong time could easily be erased and put in order when a Bill such as this one is discussed and passed. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you can already see; I heard a colleague here talking about what is happening right now in the newspapers. You see, today, we have a lot of"
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