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    "content": "Somebody was trying to go around this six. Incidentally, the champion of the Kapenguria six was the late Mzee Jomo Kenyatta. Now his son, Uhuru Kenyatta was also among these six suspects. Whoever was trying to get some arithmetic to work for him or her, nobody knows why this was replayed. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we know that we cannot close the history and run away from it. We lost lives as a result of our careless behaviour as a people of Kenya during that election. We are sorry that people died. However, from that time, we, as a nation, have walked to the extent that last year, 4th March, 2013, the people of Kenya consciously made a choice to elect leaders. They chose the Head of State, one Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta and his Deputy, William Samoei Ruto. Kenyans knew that the two were among the people that had been charged. I do not think that we, as Kenyans, made a mistake. We never did. We did participate in our democratic elections and it worked. The two were chosen and you can now see the sum total of our choice. The leader of the nation decided to come and address Parliament and take a step that nobody ever imagined he would. Mr. Speaker, Sir, some doubting Thomases were roaming around this country and outside, saying that these people will never ever come out of their offices. They would never take responsibility. They would have tasted power, but because power is sweet, as we read in the books, they would not come out of it. That they will stick there as others have done. They quoted some fellows from our neighbouring states that have been summoned and refused to honour those court summonses. We need to remember that prior to the election, the Head of State and the Deputy President then, as civilians had presented themselves. The other three had been cleared and were in the process of clearing their names. It was essential that he came to mention and tell Kenyans not to be anxious at all. It required that all of us at such a time as this, need to stand up as a nation. If you read and look at what happened to parliaments in the first world, when a problem like this erupts, the opposition and those ruling in the land at that time stand together as one. Did you not watch when the Americans were going to fight Osama bin Laden and others? There was no dissenting voice because it touched on a matter that was so important to the people of that nation. Even then, everybody in this land who had been elected and who is elected now needed to come, in their capacity, to stand with us and to stand with the Head of State as he was giving us direction so that we do not begin planting wrong seeds of discomfort and discord again in the land. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to laud and give the President all the commendations because all of us are aware that there are some people who hold certain offices to whom even imagining getting out of those offices to proceed on leave is like a nightmare. 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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