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    "content": "own understanding, it has a lot of good professionals and all those who have good wisdom which can steer this country to the road to progress if we keep on the track we are trying to do. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I thought through this Motion this afternoon, I looked at a number of things that had happened at the National Assembly and the manner in which the leadership of the National Assembly, particularly the Speaker, Justine Muturi, who has been a friend, together with the Majority Leader of the House, who unfortunately, also comes from where I come from, have taken that House in terms of direction. No wonder The Nairobi Law Monthly has at one point described those two gentlemen as the faces of impunity. It is a clear testimony. I am leaving out the Senate Majority Leader whom they included wrongly. The truth of the matter is that these gentlemen have been correctly described as the faces of impunity in this country. If they move on this way, they will not only fail the National Assembly, but even the National Executive is bound to fail if they entirely put their hopes and trust in this kind of gentlemen. I am sorry to say this – and I say it with a lot of sadness – particularly to colleagues whom I feel should have done better. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, seeking an advisory opinion is a Constitutional right for this House and I think it is the only way to get some direction. It is always good to give people an opportunity to hear again that they are on the wrong path. It is not a bad thing. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also thank the Senate Majority Leader and the entire House in the bipartisan manner in which we have operated for long time. We are going to save this House and this country if we do not operate along party lines. This will help us reason better together. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, one other culprit in this sorry state of affairs is the Attorney-General, none other than Githu Muigai, who should have guided his Excellency the President into doing the right thing. These are Constitutional provisions; something which even any blind person can see. Even the blind people use the Braille to read. I mean, you cannot lose anything if you are very careful. I call upon the Attorney-General to lead this country into the right path and help the State agencies, whether it is the National Assembly or the Senate and the Judiciary, to support and enhance the provisions of this Constitution so that we do not have people arbitrarily crossing over boundaries. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, our counterparts in the National Assembly have only failed to comprehend one thing; that in this country, county government will not exist without constituencies and constituencies will not exist without the wards that are represented by county representatives. I just cannot understand where this extreme authority claimed by Members of the National Assembly where they imagine that they have enormous power that transcends all boundaries. I want to urge them, especially those who have come into politics for the first time, because they are yet to realise that at any given time, 70 per cent of the political leadership do not come back. This is one thing they must know. A few people like Sen. G.G. Kariuki survive, but not everybody."
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