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"content": "from our counties, Governors are not complying; when we tell the national Government that you cannot hire people from tribes who are perceived to be your supporters, nobody is listening yet we say that we are going for benchmarking in Rwanda. It is, indeed, surprising that a country like Rwanda can teach a lesson to a country like Kenya which, for all intents and purposes, was doing much better than Rwanda. But Madam Temporary Speaker, Sir, what is the lesson that we have not learnt? I have gone through this speech; what lessons have we learnt? Most of the people think that Rwanda is doing well because it has a dictator in the name of the President. Rwanda is doing well because of good governance; Rwanda is doing well because the leaders in that country have realized that the buck stops with spreading what I call “tribal rhetoric, ethnic ostracization and the value of treating national treasure and national resource as something that should be treated well. The lessons from Rwanda, other than all these things, is the fact that they are not spending too much time wasting public resources, doing things that do not make sense. They have prioritized the things that affect the Rwandans and we have not. They have come as a nation and as leaders, not only to represent the people who elected them, but the Rwandans have understood that Rwanda comes first and the rest comes later. We, as Kenyans, must learn – even in this Senate or even at the National Assembly or leaders from whatever category – whether with tyranny of numbers or not, the people we represent are the people of Kenya and those people require our services as leaders and not as people who have elected us from particular tribes, regions or class. I dare say that, in fact, Kenya is going to do a lot of benchmarking in Rwanda for years to come because I do not think we have learned our lessons. Madam Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is on record and everybody knows that the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) spent a lot of public resources for four years on Agenda Four. They produced a report which is possibly gathering dust somewhere in the shelves of some official of this Government. Nobody has bothered to check what that Commission recommended after spending so much time and so many resources, wasting a lot of resources of Kenya going everywhere, collecting views. Why is the TJRC Report still lying in people’s shelves, yet we are going all over Rwanda, falling over ourselves to go and benchmark, yet we are not learning lessons? Madam Temporary Speaker, Sir, they have said in Rwanda – and this is part of the speech – and I am now repeating it for the benefit of the record:- “A key priority of Rwanda after the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis has been to empower women.” One of those things that the women of this country have gained from the 2010 Constitution is the one-third gender rule. During the early session, the Chairperson of the Committee on Devolution read a very saddening report which seems to suggest that in the hiring of people at the county level, the one-third gender rule has not been observed. Yet again, we are, as a country, not learning from the lessons that Rwanda has learned and yet, for them, it is just practice. Ours is in the law and yet we are not following it. We are not doing much to empower the women of this country. We have been passing legislation and we are about to pass legislation about procurement, where we have said that 30 per The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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