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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I am unable to support this Motion, because passing this Motion is making this House act in futility. Kenya is a guarantor to the CPA. So, this Motion is telling Kenya to do all within its powers. All that Kenya can do is to work within the CPA to ensure that the referendum takes place. When you bring a Motion to the House you are urging somebody who is reluctant to do something to do it. Why do you have to have a rhetorical Motion? In my opinion, this Motion is rhetorical because Kenya is doing its best in this matter. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the issue that we need to focus on is that it is in our interests, as Kenyans, for the Sudan to remain peaceful. We can only benefit from our investment in the CPA if the Sudan, either divided or one, is peaceful. It is only when it is peaceful that our products will get a market. So, we should not mix up the fact that a peaceful Sudan is important for Kenya’s economic prosperity with trying to interfere with what is happening in a country. The result of a Sudan that is not peaceful is Kenya having to host refugees and spent its money on another CPA. So, we want to remain an impartial negotiator in this matter. Our Government has already said, through the Minister of Foreign Affairs, that we are committed to ensuring that the CPA succeeds. I am a business person. I want a peaceful Sudan, whether one or divided. But we cannot do what Members of this House did two weeks ago in Southern Sudan. It is important for us to have fact finding missions, be impartial and understand political scenarios in other people’s countries. It is wrong to go to a referendum campaign and present your personal views in a partisan manner. It is not in our interest as a country to present a partisan position. We want a peaceful Sudan. If there is any problem with the referendum we, as a country, should remain an impartial negotiator, so that neither side can say it does not trust us. What we are trying to do is to make one side not to trust us. I would not want to support a Motion in this House, such as this one, that propagates a partisan position on Southern Sudan. I would like to see a peaceful referendum; this is in my interest, as a"
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