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    "content": "thinking about making laws. Let these laws be rejected by the people or by those who think that they know better about the Constitution. Let us pass those laws so that the public can see that we are here for their purpose. If you ask anybody at home, they will say: “you have been there for five years, let us take another person there to be as rich as you are” This is because you are not expected to do any job when you come to Parliament. You are expected to come and make money and go home. Therefore, that is why people say: “We will elect someone else for another five years, let him continue “eating”. How will we remove this attitude? We should try as much as possible to eradicate this atttitude. In this country, we claim to be 80 percent Christians, now you can see what Christians are doing by making money in ways that you cannot believe. In this country, even if you become crazy and you can give money to a few fellows around Nairobi, they will be singing for you because you are giving them food which they did not have. So, corruption will continue and we will continue to get the wrong people as our leaders. If you look at the lives of Kenyans, for example, we have been talking about drug issues in this country and many other things. Who would not say that drugs are not being sold by people that we know? Do we have powers to stop them? This is because we are also corrupt. If we were not, we should be able to take action. Therefore, this report is overdue and I am very supportive of it. I want to thank my Chairman, a man I trust and respect, because he has a wealth of experience. He has gone through all these problems. I do not want to speak for him, sometimes, when you are looking for good minds and you do not look at people like Chris Obure, you would want those who want to stand here to talk as if they have just come from the moon. They make a lot of noise repeating themselves, being irrelevant and we enjoy clapping for them and they will give them hope that they know everything. This is most unfortunate, your mind is not proper. We need not to support the people who do not bring any solutions. We should be involved in looking for solutions like what Chris Obure has just done. It is a solution, he his hunting for a solution. In other words, he is a philosopher because he is looking for knowledge and he has got it by presenting this report to us. Madam Temporary, Speaker, I was not going to speak but since the House is almost empty and the staff of the Parliament are here to see that the House is just empty, I decided as an old man, that I would sit around here and make sure that I will be the last in this House. I thank you very much Madam Speaker and also my colleague Sen. Chris Obure. I respect you. Thank you."
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