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    "content": "who have been elected to represent the people of Kenya by calling us and addressing not only Parliament, but the entire nation. Mr. Speaker, Sir, before the 6th of October, 2014, I was so confused whether to tell the President to go or not to go because I was weighing these two options. I was asking myself: If he will not go to The Hague, what will happen to him and Kenyans? If he goes to The Hague as a President, what will happen? But thank God. God loves Kenya. Indeed, God loves Kenya because through the wise counsel given by his lawyers he came up with a solution which made the entire country happy. I just came back from Italy where I interacted with the Senators and MPs, there they call them Deputies. If our President had not gone to The Hague, I knew for sure the first question they would have asked me is: Why did your President not go to The Hague? I was proud because they did not ask me that. They instead told me that they are coming to invest in Kenya. They also told me that next year they will organise an investment conference in Italy and they wished Kenya would be attending it. I am proud for what the President did for Kenya. Mr. Speaker, Sir, A few of my colleagues on the other side have said that we should trash this speech because it has no meaning. If you read the entire speech, it is not about The Hague. It talks about the unity of Kenyans, forgiveness of what happened in 2007/2008. It also talks about the job our gallant soldiers are doing in Somalia and what our diplomats are doing across the globe. It talks about our sportsmen and sportswomen. It also talks of many other things we are doing in Kenya, as a country. It is not just about The Hague. He did something very good as a leader of this country. He did not leave leadership in a vacuum. I remember when he was addressing us, one of the opposition Member of Parliament was seated next to me. He asked me “what did the President say, did he hand over the Presidency to Hon. William Ruto?” I told him yes and he said wow! Not very many Kenyans could believe that he was handing over power to his deputy. This made us proud. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we would like other leaders in Kenya, who hold constitutional offices to be doing the same. Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo spoke about. I think he read my mind because I was going to tell the governors that when they leave their counties, they should hand over power to their deputies. Likewise, I would like to tell the leadership of the opposition, the CORD that when he leaves for the United States of America (USA) or anywhere else, baba should leave the leadership of the opposition to Sen. Wetangula or hon. Kalonzo Musyoka. This is so that there is no vacuum in that leadership. 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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