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    "content": "form of dependence on any other sovereign nation should be when they support us in strengthening our institutions of governance that will lead to mature democracies. A mature democracy is self-sustaining. This is with specific reference to what we have been suffering in the hands of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), for example. We expect that in this visit, we should look at structuring those institutions that have been a platform of many issues, especially in regard to the 2007 and 2013 elections. I expect that the visit will help us appreciate that we can get to another level of zero tolerance to corruption. Since he is coming at a time when Kenya is rife with so many issues and cases of grand corruption, that we will take this opportunity to know and reevaluate ourselves as leaders, Kenyans and institutions. It is my prayer that the Jubilee administration will engage the President and the Government of the USA at that level to learn a few things about the possibility of still being good leaders and living well, and being intolerant to corruption. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, through this visit, I expect that new frontiers in business will be opened through which we will, as a country, have more investment opportunities and attractions in Kenya which will eventually create many employment opportunities and wealth for the people of Kenya. We will benefit through this. However, because of time and the interest this Motion is generating, everybody will like to comment. I am disturbed. Even as we host President Obama, when I last studied the situation in the USA, I am disturbed by two things. One is the persistent killings of blacks by white extremists from time to time under his administration. That is disturbing. Two, the last time I went to the USA and every other visit, in almost all the states there is a disturbing trend. All the jails in the USA are almost 90 per cent filled by blacks. Since we are looking at him and his administration as a big brother, from whom to copy a few things because we do not want to reinvent the wheel; what is it that this mature democracy has not been able to grapple with over the years, that still ensures that all those who end up in jail have very limited education and everything negative just happens to be blacks? We would like him and his administration at some point, probably not during this visit, to tackle that problem so that even as the world looks at the USA to emulate some best practices, then we do not have black spots within that administration that raises some worrying points. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I do not wish to belabour the points that have been presented by my colleagues. In the person of Mr. Obama, the credibility, integrity, intelligence, focus and persistence, he has risen from being a small boy from a household suffering from discrimination to become Senator and, eventually a President serving two full terms. That is a lesson for the world."
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