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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, some Senators have even suggested that we do not refer to our President as His Excellency, but I think this title is the pride of the nation just as the flag and we should not remove it. I am sure wananchi will also take pride in their President and the Deputy President being referred to as His Excellency or Her Excellency. It would also be an honour to refer to the Speakers of both Houses as the Rt. Hon. Speaker. This will also be the pride of both Houses. I was really touched by one Senator who said that a leader should never be known to lie. A leader should always be seen as the next angel in this world. When we refer to the Speakers as Rt. Honourable, we shall be reminding them never to lie. Hon. Members of Parliament or Senators should always live to tell the truth and serve the people knowing very well that it is those people who made them what they are. If leaders live by the truth, this country will achieve all the dreams that we have been yearning for. Madam Temporary Speaker, the worst cancer in this country is corruption. If only leaders can remember that they are supposed to be truthful, that cancer will end. I remember some occasions that I have been with my Governor and I am quite humbled to congratulate him. Our Governor travels in one car. I have never seen another car escorting him and I have never even asked him why. I can confidently state in this House that the Governor of Kajiado has only one car. Sometimes whenever we leave this House, we are pushed aside by motorcades with sirens, only to realize that it is a Governor who is passing. We do not even know whether it is the Governor of Kiambu, because he also comes to the City with his motorcade or the Governor of Nairobi. Sometimes other Governors also come to the City with their motorcades. I am even told that sometimes they even go to Mombasa in motorcades with sirens. So, you will find up eight motorcades with sirens and may not even know which one is carrying which Governor or whether they are even there. I think that with the passage of this Bill, we will have sanity and order. You will find even the drivers and bodyguards fighting. You will hear them saying: “I am the bodyguard of the Governor or Senator.” So, the whole scenario is also replicated even among other civil servants. After this Bill is passed, I know that we are going to have some sanity and order. Madam Temporary Speaker, the infighting regarding who is who has also degenerated so much and contributed to the insecurity in this country. Some officers who were in charge of Provincial Administration were retained because people believed that, that will be the group which will really take care of the security of this country. But even these officers do not know where they fall. Somebody called the Provincial Coordinator will come to the district and order the County Commissioner. The County Commissioner will not know whether to take the order, because there was a Presidential directive saying that all the former Provincial Commissioners were recalled. For example, if His Excellency the President visits Kajiado, you will find the former Provincial Commissioner, who is now referred to as the Coordinator, coordinating and taking charge of protocol matters. Because of that, the County Commissioners and Sub-county Commissioners do not know their roles. The former District Officers are now called Assistant Sub-County Commissioners and do not also know their roles. The Administration Police also do not know their role. In fact, most of them used to think that they were bodyguards of the provincial administrators. So, right now, they do not even"
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