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    "content": "the spirits of our ancestors and our forefathers are unhappy with them. That is why they are limping from crisis to crisis because they are offending the spirits of our ancestors. The late Martin Shikuku who spoke here, today he cries in his grave, so does Masinde Muliro, Robert Ouko who died because of believing in the small person, Josiah Mwangi Kariuki, the father of Kenneth Matiba who in his grave sees his son having been crippled because he was fighting for Kenyans and so on. They cry because they want Uhuru to serve Kenyans and not a section of Kenyans. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I now want to look at the Bill itself. Clause 10(f) suggests that the speaker of the county assembly should be a member. The question is; what for? Who is he? The person who should replace him is the leader of majority or leader of the minority, elected by the people and who can send him to the assembly to make proposals. I would like to propose that we delete Clause 12. This is the establishment of Constituencies Industrial Committee (CIC). You will convert a big thing that was supposed to open up economic blocs into a clamour for every ward and constituency. The governor will actually be held hostage by many demands. Let the committee that you have formed to be the one to drive and have a global view of the county. If they want that particular factory or industry to go to Matungu in Kakamega, the leaders of Matungu will be there. If it is in Ikolomani, the leaders of that place must be there. In both cases, a vote will be taken. These are the constituencies of Kakamega County. We do not want to make it look very small. I also request that sub-clause 14 be deleted for the same arguments. I also suggest that Clause 16 should be deleted for the same reason. Clause 21 is establishing an annual industrial conference. Public interest will be competing with private interests in the community. This will create an automatic bottleneck so that somebody who wants to invest would be told to wait for the annual conference which will take almost one year to decide. If the same person goes to Rwanda, within a period of ten days, his factory will be registered and accepted; he will have everything stamped while waiting for land to buy and start building. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Clause 37 is dealing with engagements with the banks. This is okay, but we need to think about it. We must align this clause with the constitutional provisions on borrowing. You know county governments where these people will be operating under cannot borrow. For them to borrow, they must have a guarantee from the government. So, let us graft it nicely so that it blends well with the Constitution. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, having said all those things I think today is such a nice day because I have mourned my paramount chief and I want to say something nice about Moi. I have never said anything nice about Moi ever since I came to Parliament. Moi decided to launch the manufacture of the nyayo car. Had we allowed that thing to continue, we would be having a Kenyan model. That is how India started. Some of us who are older in this Parliament will remember that Indian cars were small and ugly. We used to laugh at them. Now, they have sleek saloon cars. We must start somewhere. I insist that we must start doing our own motor vehicles so that even after it comes to mature in the next 50 years, my children and grand- children will be there. We will have nothing to lose. We would be proud to be the ones who drove Kenya into the industrial age. 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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