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    "content": "Let us do away with the term ‘illicit brew’. The term ‘illicit brew’, at least where I come from, does not make sense any more. All those drinks are in sachets. They are manufactured in proper hygienic conditions in factories. Therefore, they are legal. We should talk about alcoholism in general. If you find young men and sometimes, not so young, drunk at 9.00 a.m. is not right. Some laws were made that bars are not supposed to open until 5.00 p.m. They are now always open. I do not know how else people would be drunk at 9.00 a.m. unless they started drinking at 7.00 a.m. I am happy that the President is tackling the issue of corruption head on. However, people are collecting money from us, wananchi, depositing it in a bank and stealing it, yet nothing happens to them. That is what is happening. When one bank collapses; people get together and make a bank for collecting deposits and so on from us. When they get amounts of up to several hundreds of billions, they simply give one another some so-called loans. These are not loans. They are just stealing from us. When one gives themselves a loan with no security and disappears, the bank collapses and then, we are left crying. I heard the Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) saying they will make a fund to compensate those who had deposits in those banks. That means the Governor of the CBK will take money from the Consolidated Fund, because there is no other source of funds. He will take money which belongs to all of us to pay off what the thieves have stolen and run away. A better solution should be found. As long as people get away with it, more and more will go stealing because they know nothing will happen to them. I am happy that the President also mentioned about what is happening in the counties. This Senate is responsible for making sure money is allocated to devolved units and that it duly arrives in various counties. I want to talk about my Nyandarua County. This is the third year now and money allocated includes Kshs3 billion, Kshs3.7 billion and another Kshs4.7 billion were disbursed to the county. That is over Kshs10 billion. However, when you ask me just one big thing which I can see and be proud of that devolution is working in Nyandarua County, there is none. I believe it is not only Nyandarua. The situation is the same in all counties. Where did the Kshs10 billion go such that we cannot see anything happening? We cannot say that the money was used to pay salaries alone. That is just theft. As I finish, we are all happy that the Deputy President, Hon. William Ruto, and the radio journalist, Mr. Sang, is also free. That means that the country is free from the International Criminal Court (ICC). We are all happy and celebrate for that. I personally wish to congratulate the Deputy President and Mr. Sang that they came out of the jaws of the crocodile. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there has also been some talk that we should pull out of the ICC. I am not for or against pulling out of the ICC. Instead, we should revisit why we subscribed to the ICC in the first place, not as Kenya but African countries. The Presidents of Africa should meet and tell us which direction they want us to go because we subscribed to the ICC for a purpose. If we find it is not good enough, that is too bad. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Kenya is now free and our leaders are free. We are happy that the President does not have the shackles and so on. I, therefore, appeal to His Excellency the President and the Deputy President to focus on the Internally Displaced 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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