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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was the Chairman of this ad hoc Committee that prepared this Bill after quite some time of meetings, consultations and hearings on this issue. I do not have the list of the other Members but I am sure that somewhere in the records, the membership of this Committee which finished its work some time ago, are in the Clerk’s Office. I know for certain that Sen. Wamatangi was the Vice Chairperson of this committee and I must thank him for helping me guide the Committee’s work. This is what is called the Harambee Committee because one of the major issues of fundraising in this country has been harambees. In the past, although we have an existing legislation on public fundraising which has been there since Independence, at times in the past to update that law in the context of the current reality, has been made at least twice in Parliament. Sen. G.G Kariuki will remember in the previous Parliament, he belonged to and he had been in this House on and off longer than any of us, and we thank God for preserving his presence up to now so that we can have a memory bank of what has happened in previous Parliaments. I remember that during the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) Government, there was a committee chaired by hon. Koigi Wamwere. It looked into the issues of harambee and he produced an extremely interesting Report on harambees. Essentially, what the Report said is that harambees have become outdated and a source of misuse of public funds and a way of intimidation of those who are in power, either of the opponents or of the general public. There is a whole litany of ills that hon. Koigi Wamwere’s Committee unearthed regarding harambees. Having gone around the nation and received presentations from Kenyans, there was a general feeling that most Kenyans while they appreciated that when harambee was first introduced, it served a very useful purpose. Over the years, it has become rather than albatross around the necks of Kenyans as far as meeting its original objectives were concerned. If you remember well, the first harambee that was held, I remember I was a young student at Alliance High School soon after Independence, there was a man in Muhoroni whom we knew as “Omollo Harambee” because he was very fond of repeating what Mzee Jomo Kenyatta was saying “Harambee” and the people would respond."
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