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    "content": "affect the quality of life? They say, of course, in law that human rights are indivisible, but even if there is no proper hierarchy of human rights, I believe that the greater rights are those that support the right to live. You can live without talking, but you cannot live without eating. You can live without protesting, but you cannot live without good health facilities. Rwanda has shown the example that for now, they want to prioritize. They might have constricted the space for what we call democratic governance and so forth, but they are doing everything possible to ensure that they improve the quality of the common person. Some people who have invested in something closer to what they call “benevolent dictatorship” have developed a little bit faster than those that have increased talkshops. We need to learn from that and also address the problem of negative ethnicity. There is no problem with us having diverse ethnic background. In fact, it is an additional value. The fact that somebody comes from Kisii, Pokot, Kikuyu, Luo or Kalenjin, is something new. It should enhance our curiosity, that is, the desire to learn how they live and their ways of life. That must lead ultimately to a situation where you want to build one country with shared values. If you ask a child what the five things that unite this nation are--- I was watching the other day on television and I realized that schools are no longer teaching the national anthem. Children sing the first stanza or the second but they do not remember anything in the national anthem. We need to have a philosophy that runs through the country that enables us to have an identity of some sort. I see some other countries when we watch football, they just cry when they sing their national anthem. But in this country for someone to cry for the national anthem is not possible. Even to stand during the singing, you have to remind them ten times. When it comes to the flag, very few people would proudly hold the flag and walk around with it. I saw in one of the rallies the other day people holding a flag of another country. That means that we are not even proud to be citizens of this country. We need to invest in what unites this country and the shared values. For us to reach there, we must focus on development. We must demand from the Government issues that will ensure that we have a greater access to rights. Devolution is one new aspect that we must make it work. We must do everything possible for devolution to work so that it can be borrowed by other countries. I have a friend who is a Member of Parliament of Chadema in Tanzania. We studied leadership together in my early years. One of the things that we must think through is that Tanzania is going through a constitutional review and they were asking what we think about devolution. This is the right House to ensure that devolution works. We should ensure that counties have proper resources and ensure that those devolved resources are used in the right manner. We should ensure that those counties at the local level are able to use money for the intended purpose to support the functions in the Fourth Schedule. Countries like Rwanda in the long run - when they would have expanded a little bit, their ability to speak or their freedom of speech, when they have a debate about devolving resources, then they can say that the Senate of the Republic of Kenya invested in ensuring that devolution works. Therefore they will replicate what we are doing here. One of the things we should export to East Africa and to Africa indeed is the unique form 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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