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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we are at a loss and I think it is high time institutions like the Senate and the National Assembly started changing their perception of issues. If we continue this way, nothing will happen for the next 50 years. Thank God I will not be there to see all these nonsense. We have to change this country. The only way we can transform this country is by knowing that money is not going to take us anywhere in this world. Worthwhile money is that which you can plough back to the people and not to just keep it in the banks and then the following day, you are not there. Pupils joining Standard One were promised laptops, but we have not seen them. This has not happened because of the prevailing confusion. We are in big problems. Sometimes I sit here like a baboon which hon. Members were talking about because I wonder what we are doing if we cannot move anything as the Senate. We are very good at condemning, but we should ask ourselves as the Senate; what culture we are entrenching among Kenyans? We simply come here and talk to the galleries in very good English; through the nose like a “white” man, but in essence, that is not what brought us here. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the first time I met the late President Jomo Kenyatta was in 1952 when I was in Form Two. He came to our school and said “Young men, the most educated person is not the one who can speak the Queen’s English, but somebody who can put pieces of timber together and make a table or collect sand stones and make a house”. Those are the intelligent men and women and those are the persons we need in this country. However, that philosophy was overtaken by the allure of white collar jobs because that is what the “white” man wanted. They knew that they were educating their servants. We have continued in the same way as though we have servants in this country. Kenyans will no longer be servants of others; they can stand on their own feet. Kenyans are just watching us and a time will come when we will be asked to give way. Our sitting here should not just be like in the National Assembly where people gather to intimidate others so that they can get something into their pockets. Thank you."
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