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    "content": "harambee. I do not think we should condemn those people. We should actually encourage them. I am waiting for them to fly to my county because I have enough problems that need to be sorted out. With the spirit of harambee, Kenya was more united in 1963 up to 30 years later, but now we have gone to counties. I do not know how we are going to carry out this harambees so that we remain one in the spirit of bringing people together. I know the counties are only employing people from their own counties, but the worst bit is where the ward administrators and sub-county administrators are now actually forcing people to either sing the song of the man on the throne who is the governor, or they are not employed. So, you will find people queuing to pledge allegiance to him in order to be employed. When you find that scenario, the spirit of harambee which was to bring people together is killed right in the village. We now have ethnicity and political alignment. You will find some very rude governors saying that they will rule till they die. It will be so sad for anybody to pray for God to intervene in his or her life when he or she is still working. I support this Bill and ask that we scrutinize every detail and give power to the law; what happens to somebody who abuses this spirit. I also hope that the Judiciary will support us. Today I read in the newspapers of somebody who was sent on compulsory leave from EACC and the courts returned him to his job before he stepped out of the office. Now, what happens when you want to bring order? That person was not being sacked; he was simply being sent on compulsory leave so that some investigations could be done. Our courts are becoming the protector of everything and anything under the sun. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this morning we had a meeting of the Senate Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget. People said that we should not entertain people from Makueni County Assembly until the Governor says so. The Governor started calling; I do not know who gave him all the numbers of all the clerks working in that Committee. We are now interfering with everything. The spirit of harambee is a choice which we should not mess up, but make it stronger, to the extent that if that money is not used properly, that person involved must be punished. Nowadays, in the villages, they have made the system very strong. They call in police officers when a harambee is done. The money is taken and escorted directly to the bank even at night. This is now making it stronger and better. The usage is where we have a challenge. I want to thank Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o, although as Sen. Moses Kajwang mentioned, some people have been writing different stories in the newspapers saying, that it has been killed. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I support."
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