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    "content": "be promoted or you are sacked, then you will say: “If I cannot be helped by my own Government, I am going to look for a way of helping myself.” That is the truth. We are making some people look or feel hopeless. That is what caused the war in Rwanda. They felt hopeless and said: “If I have nothing to lose, then I would rather die fighting.” Please, do not take the country there, because it is almost there. Madam Temporary Speaker, the third thing is ethnicization of this country. It is sad that we still talk of tribes. We, politicians, know it best. We talk of tribes and when we go to our constituencies, we talk of clans. When we go to the wards, we talk of families. If we go to the families, we talk of the households. The problem is that human beings divide themselves from races and then come to nations, tribes, clans, villages and then even discriminate against each other in the same family. Ethnicization of politics is a dangerous thing. In fact, I was getting calls from Nakuru, Naivasha and Nyanyuki that Luos must leave those places. The Luos were asking: “What have we done?” Because people have died in Mpeketoni, Luos must leave Naivasha! Look at that rubbish in a civilized country. Madam Temporary Speaker, the last thing that must solve this problem is the structure of our security. We have said that security must go up to the village, but the national Government does not want to work with elected people. Regarding what happened in Lamu, I have not heard anybody asking: “Where was the Governor when this happened, yet the Governor is elected to take care of his people, both politically and economically?” We just ignore it. Then you ask ole Lenku who was sleeping in Nairobi to go and take charge. I am sure that the Governor would have done something by the time that ole Lenku reached there. He would tell him: “I have tried this and that and failed here. Please, now take over.” Until we know that security is about taking care of individuals at the village level and the villagers know to take care of themselves better than anybody else, we are losing it. We are not going anywhere. We are not going to talk about unity in our country by one side of the mouth and say that you cannot talk by the other side of the same mouth. If we need unity, we need to talk. If Israel is talking to Palestinians and they are killing each other, and the Pope who comes from another religion, is praying for them and they close their eyes, what is wrong with people here in Kenya sitting down and talking? We were talking the other day too big. This country belongs to all of us and we must start talking. We must start persuading; we must start sending the best signal to our country; that this country is one. Imagine this; that people are going to fight in--- No; not here."
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