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    "content": "and marginalisation will take advantage to create problems so that Al Qaeda or other groups will take responsibility. When you are out of this country and read newspapers and get information from outside concerning Kenya, you find that we are in a big problem which we are not open about. The crisis is everywhere. Which district would you not find the problems what that we are going through? My suggestion is that instead of Members of Parliament thinking of going to the US and the other big cities--- There is nothing you can contribute to the Americans. We are not capable of doing anything to them because they have got many ways of learning from us without even asking us to go to their countries. You can go to Nigeria and try to understand the Boko Haram and what they are doing. You have travel to Tanzania to find out why they think Al Qaeda has just attacked them. You have to go to Uganda and find out why they think “a” “b” “c” and “d” is happening. We can get the knowledge within the East African Community. Thinking that traveling to France will help us is not correct. China, the United States of America and India are competing on the international market but there is an end to everything. Ten years ago if you had thought that Americans would be in the position they are in today, everybody would have laughed at you because it is a superpower. A superpower has got its own end; it must come down. Even when all these things are happening, we should focus on our own problems in East Africa and see how we can sort them out internally. We should deal with tribalism and marginalization which we have been talking about all the time but nothing will change; a Luo will remain a Luo and a Kikuyu will remain a Kikuyu. The only thing you are expected to do is to make sure that their knowledge and your knowledge put together will take the country beyond its borders. It is not right to think that you will be favoured because the President comes from your tribe. Madam Temporary Speaker, the security of this nation should be looked at critically and very seriously because the way we are moving, I do not see anything that we are going to achieve. Those who are supposed to manage the security agencies of this country are disorganized; departments are acting without consultations. Time has come for this Senate to try to influence policy towards giving this country security so that we can talk about creating employment, expanding businesses and resuscitating tourism. At the moment, many tourists have cancelled their travel plans to Mombasa and many other places in Kenya. But if you ask the top people in the Ministry of East Africa, Commerce and Tourism, they will tell you that they have not been affected at all. Those who have businesses in Mombasa will tell you that they have been grossly affected. We need to have sober minds and behave differently in this Senate from how we used to behave in the National Assembly. I beg to support this Speech and say that we were blessed to have the President of the Senate of the Republic of Rwanda to come and talk to us. Thank you."
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