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    "content": "for your county. There should be some measurable results and the people should be able to identify what you have done for them. It is not about flags and titles. We can refer to you as your Excellency or Governor so-and-so and yet you are doing nothing for your county. A lot of this excess baggage that we load onto ourselves becomes a stumbling block to good leadership because you do not even have time to lead the other person’s life. You should make yourself light so that once in a while, you can go to the slum areas or visit a hospital and spend a day there. It should be possible for you to walk into a poor woman’s house and know exactly what she goes through in a day. This will help you formulate the kind of policies that positively touch on the lives of the people in that county. But if you are up there with so many vehicles and bodyguards, you create a barrier with your people. In any case, why are you being guarded against your own people unless you are a very bad person? For God’s sake, every Governor was born in the county. Why do they think their own people want to kill them if they are good people? If you are a good person, your own people will be collectively responsible for your life. Why are you getting people from other places to become your special advisors or security men when your own people are jobless? Why can you not simplify your life as a leader so that you are even accessible? What we are creating right now are 47 kingdoms with 47 kings who are so paramount and inaccessible. If we do not stop this at this early stage, very soon, we will end up with 47 states because absolute power corrupts absolutely. What is going to happen is that nobody will want to be dethroned as a Governor and that will mean spending all their energies and resources to ensure that every potential competition is eliminated or frustrated. They will even make their opponents refugees. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, after two years, some of us may find it difficult to go home because the Governor thinks you are a threat and so he makes sure that when you are spotted on the borders of the county you are repulsed by militias that even burn your house and make it impossible for you to attend any function because you are a threat. Anybody who in his generosity decides to build a school in that county is eliminated because he or she is considered a threat to the Governor. It is a shame and we cannot continue like this. We are now preparing to have our 50 years Jubilee celebrations but who are we really going to celebrate? I would like to see the old man from the coast who composed the national anthem being celebrated. Recently, he was on national television and I sympathized with him when I saw the house he is living in. Do you want to tell me that nobody has decided to just put aside Kshs100,000 in all these successive governments to construct a house for him? He is living in a structure that is almost collapsing on him and yet it is his composition that gave us the national anthem which we sing with so much pride. Who are our real heroes? In this country, you must be a billionaire or somebody with ten titles before you are celebrated. Why is it that the people who played critical roles in making us who we are or bringing this country to where it is are completely looked down upon? If we cannot celebrate them, how do we expect the other generations to celebrate us? I would like to see those women who fought alongside the Mau Mau being celebrated because they played a very big role by taking food to the warriors in the bush. Nobody even remembers them. I would like to see them being celebrated. I would like to see the children of some of those people who died and never tasted the fruits of"
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