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    "content": "They will not even want to imagine going for leave. There are some civil servants who have never gone for leave for ages and years because they do not know what will happen to their office and to their seat the next day. We, as a nation, learnt a lot from the President’s Speech. We learnt that we have a Head of State we can rely on. We learnt that he means every word he tells us to the extent that we must treat the manifesto and the agenda of Jubilee, that we are following, seriously. This is because it was written from the hearts of the men that just addressed us in this matter. I also want to thank the Deputy President for walking the talk together with the President, because if he was somebody who was not reliable, we would not have gone this far. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is quite interesting that some people are still imagining that Africans cannot think for themselves. Some people are thinking that we cannot make any decisions that can challenge the world. I want to believe that the decisions, the choice or action that the Head of State took was a remarkable one. Everybody was able to read and follow that Kenya is a nation of leaders and of people that they can emulate. That is why some of four brilliant brains are in key leading sectors in some of these countries in Africa like South Africa, Botswana, Rwanda, et cetera. It is because Kenya has a pool of people who are champions that can be relied upon, just as the Head of State has become an exemplary leader who can be copied by many. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I now want to come back home to the 47 small county governments that we have. I do not know, in the last one year, whether any governor has gone on leave. I am not aware and I am not sure. You have already read about how governors have been having trouble and problems with their deputies. Governors need to learn a very key lesson from the steps that the Head of State took. They need to learn that the President was able to trust his Deputy President. Some of the deputy governors have almost zero duties in the counties just because the governors do not trust them. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I pray that this speech should be photocopied and be given to both governors and deputy governors in all our 47 counties. If possible it should also be translated into their mother tongues so that they can learn how trust one another. It is a pity that some of the deputy governors are just sitting in their offices without a single activity because the boss, who happens to be the Governor, does not trust them. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it does not end there; even Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of parastatals have the same problem. They have the problem of lack of trust in somebody else. They do not even apply for leave. They do not believe that somebody else can carry out the activities in their office. It is quite important that we need to trust each other. Even some of our political leaders do not trust anybody else apart from themselves. 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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