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    "content": "We need a framework that can set timelines, benchmark, achievable and that can make the people of this country realise these rights. At that time, very many people, including myself, thought that realising these rights was going to be very expensive to the country. However, today, if you watch the ongoings in this country very carefully, even casually, and you see the amount of money being stolen, looted and wasted away through corrupt practices, you then realize that even if you had made your mind that it must be progressive, in fact, it becomes instant. If public resources were protected to realise that what belongs to the public belongs to the people of Kenya and not individuals who literally, through their offices, have moved from rugs to riches, from Lazarus of the Bible sitting under the tables of the rich man to pick crumbs, to the rich man himself within a year or two. Now a new Lazarus has to go under the table. With all this, we then need an obligation to ask ourselves: If the resources of this country were put to good use, would we still be having abject poverty as a national narrative? Could we still be having deprivation in our midst? I do not know about some counties that appear favoured, but if you visit health facility in Siaya, Bungoma, West Pokot or Marsabit counties, you wonder whether the 51 years of our Independence have meant anything for the people of this country. The sick are really sick. However, the most sick of the sickest of them all is the institution of health itself. You go to hospitals, dispensaries and health centres, you realize that there is no medicine or medical personnel. You will only find young students from Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) where they are available, who are attending to very serious cases. They do not even know what an injection means, but they are injecting people. This is a very sorry state. It is not because this country does not have resources. This country is now in international news for all the wrong reasons. I do not know whether you saw the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) publication saying that in Kenya today, sexual objects are now national assets; those are condoms and vibrators and others."
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