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    "content": "We have some of the heads of political parties who have hold positions in those parties permanently. They do not want to relinquish them to anybody else. They are permanent and pensionable there. We need to believe that somebody else can run the show better than us. The same scenario is true in the world of academia and in the universities. You will get vice chancellors who have never gone on leave since they became Vice Chancellors. You have headmasters who have stuck in their offices because they do not believe that anybody else can run the schools in their absence. The lesson we learnt from the President’s Speech of 6th October, 2014, needs to remain with us. It is true statesmanship that the President was able to go alone and everybody else in that country could not believe that what had been done was done. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not know whether my colleagues, who never came to listen to the Head of State’s address, have any moral authority to even challenge and critique the speech. If you do, do it decently as a Member of the Opposition rather than rubbishing almost everything in it because you do not know who will be next. When you are saying that the speech that was given by the Head of State is nothing or baseless, which speech did you want to give yourself? You need to give us one copy of your speech so that we can compare it with what the President gave us. Yes, it is good to challenge issues, but challenge them decently. When you critique the speech, you should do so if you had your pen and paper taking notes when the speech was being delivered. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is high time that all of us, as the people of Kenya, came together and forgot our political differences, particularly now that this is the year of development. We just came out of elections almost one year ago and we have three more years to go. We need every part of this country to be developed, including where the Senate Minority Leader comes from. All of them are our people and all them need their areas to be developed. So, when we are running our politics, we need to run them in such a way that we can be friends immediately you finish your contribution to this speech, rather than refusing to even shake our hands. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have personally learnt a lot. We need to emulate this. Indeed, I want to finalize my contribution to this speech by urging every Kenyan citizen to accept and understand that the choice the President made was okay because it was good for our people. The President also went further, as he concluded, to urge African leaders, brothers and sisters, to always stand with Kenya and the people of Kenya. The people of Kenya will always stand with them even when they are in their difficult times. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to conclude my remarks by saying that we have had a teacher. If it was those days, we would have said that this was “teacher number one” because of the lessons we have just learnt from him. 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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