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    "content": "brought the Report to the House, you are under no duty to defend your position; you let us ventilate on the Report. That is how democracies work and we work that way. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when I was interrupted by a point of order, I was paying tribute to advise given to me by Sen. Musila and I was informing the House that, in fact, if you look back to the previous proceedings of impeachment, in the Wambora case, the Committee summoned the Controller and Auditor-General and the Director of Public Procurement Oversight Authority to give them professional advice. In this particular one, instinctively, none of the distinguished Senators in the Committee was from the Kamba community to the extent that we could say that they had the benefit of knowing the language. One would have expected that they could have called a respected person with a wide knowledge of the language to come and tell them what this meant. As a true African, you know that there is not a single word in any of our languages that has a pigeon hole meaning. In my language, there is a word Kukhu which means grandmother and when you just twist the pronunciation a bit, it means a huge firewood. You can give it a third meaning and so on and so forth. Also, if you have a last born daughter, you call her the same but she does not become your grandmother. I want to urge the House, bipartisan, that we are defenders and protectors of devolution. We should not be cheerleaders, neither should we be catalysts or fan fires where there are conflicts going on in county management structures. I was finishing by telling our Governors who may be listening and watching, I was told by my former President and boss, Hon. Mwai Kibaki, when one of us was very agitated in expressing extravagant views against people that we thought we did not like, he told us that life is not about people you like, life is about people you live with. Those who think that they will only live with people they like may have to move to the next planet. If you want to live in this country--- there are many things that I like about my distinguished brother from Nakuru and there are many things that I may not like about him, but I must live with him and he must live with me. In law, we say take your victim as you find him. We must live with each other and I want to tell my good friend, the Governor of Machakos, that this aura of a great performer, of doing incredible things better than others can crumble like a pyramid of cards with this kind of manouvres."
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