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    "content": "scheme that is being established in this country. In fact, I believe that another generation will study and look at this political dispensation as the dispensations that ensured and put into place the biggest most entrenched public corruption scheme in this country. I speak with a lot of heaviness in my heart because I do not think it is just the Senate as an institution or the Senators that are being targeted. Is the National Assembly in essence acting without being controlled remotely by some system, institutions, a group of people or an office? It is not possible. In fact, this other side show and scandal about Dr. Juma is well schemed to withdraw our attention from the main thing, so that most Kenyans are talking about Dr. Juma. That was also really vile without any reason at all, just to allow this system to go through. It is really sad that a budgetary process that we started last year in June, that has been interrogated by institutions upon institutions, passed in Parliament, brought here and taken back, we now have it passed when some allocations have been bloated by a whopping Kshs19 billion. Who is doing this? If you have an allocation which was Kshs6.5 billion and now it is Kshs25 billion and nobody has seen--- We are not talking about Kshs1.5 billion but Kshs19 billion. It was first introduced in the National Assembly and then brought to the Senate, taken back and then somebody just blew it up to Kshs19 billion on one allocation and then it was assented to in one day. You want to tell me that we are not witnessing something that it is actually selling the birth rights of this nation. This is beyond party and regional politics. This is about the welfare of our children and their children. Everything that is being planted today will surely germinate and bear fruits and our children will be forced to partake. Therefore, we cannot sit down and remain silent, we cannot attempt to please any politician, any system or any regime, and this is about our own welfare. Given the impunity with which the National Assembly is trying to conduct its business, we must state here and now that the supremacy of the Constitution cannot be negotiated. They are negating everything that is contained in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Fair Administrative Action Bill and they are negating and violating the provisions of Chapter Six of the Constitution. In my opinion, the National Assembly should be dissolved because they are the problem that this country is now dealing with. They are being used by enemies of progress and of this country to rubberstamp in a record few minutes every time anybody wants to have anything that is not good for this county. I will not belabour to repeat what has been stated but the entire nation must come together on this issue. We cannot have institutions that are not funded and are going to die naturally. We cannot have good brains and politicians whose political careers are going to be stopped abruptly because somebody somewhere wants to fill their pockets or kill this economy. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, with that, I beg to support this Motion."
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