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    "content": "decisions that can challenge the world. I want to believe that the decisions, the choice or action that the Head of State took was a remarkable one. Everybody was able to read and follow that Kenya is a nation of leaders and of people that they can emulate. That is why some of four brilliant brains are in key leading sectors in some of these countries in Africa like South Africa, Botswana, Rwanda, et cetera. It is because Kenya has a pool of people who are champions that can be relied upon, just as the Head of State has become an exemplary leader who can be copied by many. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I now want to come back home to the 47 small county governments that we have. I do not know, in the last one year, whether any governor has gone on leave. I am not aware and I am not sure. You have already read about how governors have been having trouble and problems with their deputies. Governors need to learn a very key lesson from the steps that the Head of State took. They need to learn that the President was able to trust his Deputy President. Some of the deputy governors have almost zero duties in the counties just because the governors do not trust them. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I pray that this speech should be photocopied and be given to both governors and deputy governors in all our 47 counties. If possible it should also be translated into their mother tongues so that they can learn how trust one another. It is a pity that some of the deputy governors are just sitting in their offices without a single activity because the boss, who happens to be the Governor, does not trust them. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it does not end there; even Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of parastatals have the same problem. They have the problem of lack of trust in somebody else. They do not even apply for leave. They do not believe that somebody else can carry out the activities in their office. It is quite important that we need to trust each other. Even some of our political leaders do not trust anybody else apart from themselves. We have some of the heads of political parties who have hold positions in those parties permanently. They do not want to relinquish them to anybody else. They are permanent and pensionable there. We need to believe that somebody else can run the show better than us. The same scenario is true in the world of academia and in the universities. You will get vice chancellors who have never gone on leave since they became Vice Chancellors. You have headmasters who have stuck in their offices because they do not believe that anybody else can run the schools in their absence. The lesson we learnt from the President’s Speech of 6th October, 2014, needs to remain with us. It is true statesmanship that the President was able to go alone and everybody else in that country could not believe that what had been done was done. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not know whether my colleagues, who never came to listen to the Head of State’s address, have any moral authority to even challenge and critique the speech. If you do, do it decently as a Member of the Opposition rather than rubbishing almost everything in it because you do not know who will be next. When you are saying that the speech that was given by the Head of State is nothing or baseless, 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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