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    "content": "their mandates. The Kibunja-led commission then attempted to bring cohesion and we appreciate that we had a fairly peaceful election in the last election. We are now heading into the next election. However, we have seen certain divisive statements from our leaders. We have already heard statements from leaders who are unable to give clarity to the issue that they are raising. There are leaders who go to a community or a church meeting and tell people to arm themselves. When they fail to make it clear what it is that they are telling the young people in those meetings to arm themselves with, the young men and women in those communities could interpret it to mean so many things. We, therefore, expect the NCIC will step in and ensure that we have responsible leaders and society as we engage people of this country during the electioneering period. This is one of the mandates that the NCIC should have had from the word go, but they need to do some soul searching. If they do not have resources they must justify and work towards getting the resources. Parliament should be able to ensure that this NCIC has the necessary resources. It will be unacceptable to see commissioners of an institution that is funded by tax payer’s money behaving and discussing issues like laymen in the village yet they have been given the mandate to move this country forward in terms of national cohesion and integration. I, therefore, want to call upon the very good commissioners that we appointed into those commissions to be serious with their responsibility. They should ensure that this country moves on in the right direction, identify potential hotspots and provide leadership in ensuring that these peace building and reconciliation efforts target the right geographical areas. As pointed out, it does not make sense to have peace building initiatives in a society that has never had a problem yet you leave out areas that perennially have ethnic conflicts. This amendment will help us to shape, direct our right energies to the right regions and ensure that the right message is sent across. It does not make sense for somebody to say that he is carrying out peace building and reconciliation at the border of Nandi and Kisumu yet the organisation is purely being driven by Nandis while the other one is driven purely by Luos. At the end of the day, this will accelerate the conflict instead of managing it. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I congratulate the Mover of this Bill. The National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) needs to go back to the drawing board and ensure that they carry out their responsibilities in accordance with the Act, including this new mandate that we are giving them so that we prepare this country for the elections in a peaceful process; ensure that we have the same situation as it is in the United States of America (USA) where we have one of the most charged presidential elections coming up in November 2016, but it has never been about clashes, violence and conflict but ideas. This is what we need in this country to ensure that we have peaceful elections and a cohesive society beyond an electioneering period. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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