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"content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I wish to oppose this amendment because experience is the best teacher. Those of us who have lived in this country have seen how, in the name of State security, freedom of Kenyans has been trampled on. I do not think this is an amendment to support. What happens if tomorrow the hotel business is not doing well and my good friend, the father of multipartyism, Kenneth Matiba, decides that he wants to venture into this business? Would he be allowed or would he be disallowed simply because he was once detained and perceived to have been acting against the interest of State security? Kenyans must think in terms of the new constitutional dispensation. We should not be like chicken and think we are in the past, so that when it comes to State security, somebody else is supposed to determine our destiny. I oppose this amendment."
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