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    "content": "made a choice to elect leaders. They chose the Head of State, one Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta and his Deputy, William Samoei Ruto. Kenyans knew that the two were among the people that had been charged. I do not think that we, as Kenyans, made a mistake. We never did. We did participate in our democratic elections and it worked. The two were chosen and you can now see the sum total of our choice. The leader of the nation decided to come and address Parliament and take a step that nobody ever imagined he would. Mr. Speaker, Sir, some doubting Thomases were roaming around this country and outside, saying that these people will never ever come out of their offices. They would never take responsibility. They would have tasted power, but because power is sweet, as we read in the books, they would not come out of it. That they will stick there as others have done. They quoted some fellows from our neighbouring states that have been summoned and refused to honour those court summonses. We need to remember that prior to the election, the Head of State and the Deputy President then, as civilians had presented themselves. The other three had been cleared and were in the process of clearing their names. It was essential that he came to mention and tell Kenyans not to be anxious at all. It required that all of us at such a time as this, need to stand up as a nation. If you read and look at what happened to parliaments in the first world, when a problem like this erupts, the opposition and those ruling in the land at that time stand together as one. Did you not watch when the Americans were going to fight Osama bin Laden and others? There was no dissenting voice because it touched on a matter that was so important to the people of that nation. Even then, everybody in this land who had been elected and who is elected now needed to come, in their capacity, to stand with us and to stand with the Head of State as he was giving us direction so that we do not begin planting wrong seeds of discomfort and discord again in the land. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to laud and give the President all the commendations because all of us are aware that there are some people who hold certain offices to whom even imagining getting out of those offices to proceed on leave is like a nightmare. They will not even want to imagine going for leave. There are some civil servants who have never gone for leave for ages and years because they do not know what will happen to their office and to their seat the next day. We, as a nation, learnt a lot from the President’s Speech. We learnt that we have a Head of State we can rely on. We learnt that he means every word he tells us to the extent that we must treat the manifesto and the agenda of Jubilee, that we are following, seriously. This is because it was written from the hearts of the men that just addressed us in this matter. I also want to thank the Deputy President for walking the talk together with the President, because if he was somebody who was not reliable, we would not have gone this far. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is quite interesting that some people are still imagining that Africans cannot think for themselves. Some people are thinking that we cannot make any The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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