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    "content": "Leader of the Majority Party was also at pains to explain his own things, many of which I have not seen in the President’s Speech. In his Speech last year, His Excellency the President impressed this House. In fact, as he spoke, he got a lot of foot thumping and people stood up in praise because he said things we thought our Government should be doing at the time when Kenya really need them. A year later, it should have been good for His Excellency the President to stand before the nation and give a scorecard of achievement since last year. He did very little to stand by it because a lot of that Speech last year was just around ridding this country of corruption. What did the Government do in the issue of corruption? Remember Hon. Chris Wamalwa tried to save this country the agony of attempting to rid ourselves of corrupt practices by cleaning up the secretariat of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC). The same Government refused. The same Leader of the Majority Party, who is now claiming they have won the war against corruption, refused and defended those people. I said on this Floor before and I want to say it now that as long as the secretariat of the EACC remains, especially the top two in leadership, there will be no war won on corruption. The EACC itself cannot be the one that personifies corruption. Unless we do that, the Commissioners whose names were brought here by the President - they look like good Kenyans - will never scratch the surface for corruption. It is good for this House to help. This House sabotaged the President’s will to fight corruption by keeping the secretariat of the EACC. A year later, what has Hon. Duale not told us? He has not talked about the crisis of corruption. He has not. Let me say one good thing that the President claims they have achieved and it is so good; it is street lighting. There is a lot of security because of street lighting. If you walk in the streets of Kisumu, about everywhere, it is so bright. Good achievement by the Government. When it is good, you say it is good. We say thank you. That was well thought out. He talks about other things like the nationalist covenant. It says all of us, the 42 tribes and 40 million people. You begin to see danger that somebody, either the President, is misinforming the public or somebody is busy misinforming him. The President should not talk about nationalism when the appointments of this Executive resolve around two tribes. It cannot. We cannot sit back and not talk about it. A Government must be sensitive to the feelings of the people. When some people feel excluded, you are always going to have noise. It is good. I agree with the President that we should criticise the Government constructively, but what happens to an Opposition if everything that comes in your face is wrong? What is the work of the Opposition? This Opposition has done very well. This is a sport for us and we are playing it very well. Not the way the President asks us not to do. If the nationalist covenant is an unwritten contract with the people of Kenya, the President must sit back and rethink the strategy of the Jubilee Government as far as inclusivity is concerned. You cannot do that. It does not mean you bring politicians. We do not want to be part of this Government. I would be one to reject anybody from this party imagining they can support a Government that entertains, that is happy when corruption takes place. I would be the first one to oppose. There are people from all over the country, include them in nation building. Do not bring tribalistic tendencies and attitudes about our people. Our people are angry at the political class particularly the Government about tribalism. The country is not sitting pretty. There are many wrong things. The President said that as you enjoy liberties, we must remain true to the spirit of nationhood. We want to remain true as we criticise, but give us a reason to be happy as a country. It is his duty. All of us who come here 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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