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    "content": "cent of all procurement should go to women, youth and the persons with disabilities. I stated and I am on record to say that Makueni County has got more women than men. So, why should we give women that category and limit them to a minority yet we know that they constitute a majority of the population? Similarly, the youth constitute a bulk of the population, yet even in our own law, we are giving them a minority position. Madam Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to say that even in our road to transformation in this country, we have forgotten the lessons. We say this and practise the other. It is common in this country to preach water and manufacture all the wine in the world. They have done it in Rwanda and I have said it here; we are going to be overtaken soon enough because they have said women empowerment is one among many lessons that Rwanda is carrying to our friends as a reminder that democratic empowerment, inclusion and fair representation have a transforming impact which regional integration cannot ignore. We have to preach and continue preaching as leaders that the women of this country do not need special privileges because they are the ones who bore us. We do not need to give them privileges in the Constitution through laws which we do not obey. One of the things we must learn from things like this and which Rwanda has come all the way to explain to us is that we must start recognizing the women of this country and give them the positions they deserve without necessarily discriminating against them. The lessons on discrimination are only too paramount. One of the problems bedeviling this country is not poverty. One of the problems that bedevil this country that will take us to the next level is not this nice looking print of Vision 2030 but the way we will deal with the monster called tribalism. The day we deal with tribalism and our leaders stop preaching tribalism is the day we will start recognizing that we have communities which are marginalized. The day we stop preaching tribalism is the day we will realise that we have communities which are living in Mandera and other farflung areas and are also sons and daughters of this country. This is the day we will move forward. The day we audit ourselves and come to the table of truth and sit down and say that we have not only imbalanced the people of this country by hiring people from our own tribe to make economic gain, temporary as it may be, is the day the country will learn. With regard to terrorism, the Speech spoke very well about security threats and how we can, as a country, deal with it. It is now on record that hotels in Mombasa will close. They will also retrench staff. Why will they retrench? They will retrench because the Government of the Republic of Kenya is playing lip service to security issues. We will retrench Kenyans because the beaches in Mombasa are empty. Lamu and Mombasa have become places where nobody wants to go because of insecurity. How much have we done in asking our neighbours to assist us because we appear as if we are failing in our security? Every time we debate the issue of security, we are just paying lip service to the people of Kenya. Tomorrow, you will hear of another security threat somewhere in another region. I dare say that I had emails sent to me about threats to places like Likoni more than two weeks ago. If an ordinary Kenyan like me received such an email, where are 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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