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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mwaura",
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Bill. As parliamentarians and Kenyans, we need to imagine a better Kenya that is well planned, devoid of corruption, clean, safe and healthy. We should imagine a better Kenya that looks like those places we go to as Members of Parliament to benchmark, and we wonder whether we can have such countries. I remember we had a conversation sometime back. When people watch movies made in other countries, they ask: Was this place actually created like that? This is because it looks very different. They think things just happened. That is where we are in this country. Sometimes we as leaders forget that we have the responsibility of ensuring that we take our country to where we would want it to be. This is because we should lead from the front. Maybe because we are confronted by challenges which look enormous, we feel like we cannot actually make a difference. Our role in history is to ensure that we make that little step going forward and the rest can be done by those who will come after us in terms of building it up. When you look at our development plans, we write them very well. They are excellent but more often than not, they are never implemented because of corruption. We have forgotten our sense of patriotism. Our patriotism has been reduced to fit in our tribal cocoons. It has been reduced not to go not to our country, but even to individuals. The only development that seems to matter is personal accumulation of wealth, which is primitive. This is very worrying because it has created a very big gap between the haves and the have-nots. Going forward, our country is reeling from debt and so many other vices, because of the selfishness of leaders and people who wield influence in Government. Also, when you look at how our cities and towns are developing, it is very evident that they are actually products of corruption. Yesterday night, I was driving somewhere and I was shocked because that neighbourhood was supposed to be for low cost housing. It is next to a middle income estate. However, when you go there, you actually find that it is a slum in nature. Many unplanned apartments are coming up there, and they make a lot of money for the owners. The roads are dirty and narrow. They are untarmacked or not paved. It is really horrible. Of course, there are The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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