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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kiptui",
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        "legal_name": "Grace Jemutai Kiptui",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, indeed, this is a very emotive topic. Some of us are very emotional when we talk about it. As leaders, we must be the ones to show the way. Unfortunately, since Independence, this country has taken a nosedive. It is continuing to go down instead of coming up. We have enumerated our values in the Constitution. However, we do not live by those values. We have a disease in this country whereby we churn out very good papers and legislate good laws but, when it comes to implementation, we go the opposite of our original intentions. It is a very sad situation. As a Member from the other side said, we need a revolution. We need a big bang that will wake us up into sense. We pray God that we remove this spirit of contradiction. In this country, we say this and do the opposite. Look at how we behave even on the streets. We have no respect for one another. When you go to a bank and you find someone is being served, instead of waiting on the queue for your brother to be served, you jump in front or shout to the teller. You want to be served so that you can go away quickly. That, in itself, shows a very selfish attitude that we have towards one another, lack of respect and even care for fellow human beings. Hon. Speaker, in our education system, we need to inculcate those values at a very early stage in our children’s lives. But do we do that? In our curriculum, what do we see? Even when you teach children during the day about good manners, when they go home, they watch television and see leaders fighting. That, in itself, is a very big contradiction. For instance, in the political arena, we have made politics money driven. If you have no money, voters will see that you have no value. It does not matter what innovative ideas you may have which may help this country to go forward, but you are never given a chance if you are poor. This is because you came in here through your money. Your money voted you in. We have made our politics very expensive to the extent that very soon, we will have no good leaders but only people who have money. Hon. Speaker, it is high time we met as leaders, went for a retreat and asked ourselves: What are we going to do to turn this country into the right path as it should be? In Kenya, leaders are not regarded as leaders and that is why when we go to the constituency every weekend, we find so many Harambees, almost 30 in number. It is because we are looked at as having a lot of money. We are just considered like bags of money or walking Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) without Personal Identification Numbers (PINs). Ukiguzwa tu, money should come out. We really need to think about it. I do not care much about how many laws we will enact. My problem is at the implementation stage. May God help this present Parliament to turn Kenya around?"
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