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    "content": "The portion which Sen. Elachi is addressing is the one that involved Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo. When there were clashes in his county, and he attempted to address them, after the communities surrendered the guns, did anybody go back and address the question of what was the fundamental issue that led to the loss of lives? It was business as usual where the Government and everybody else took off. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I agree with the sentiments of Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’- Nyong’o that the NCIC officers are like social workers. They should be spending time talking to the communities, promoting peace, talking to political parties, Government, auditing county and national governments and telling them that the employment that they are doing – the one that Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale mentioned - is not promoting elimination of discrimination. The more you employ two communities to the disadvantage of 39 others, you continue to promote the same thing that the Commission was supposed to address. We make a mistake that the absence of war is peace. It is not a fact. People have tolerated discrimination in this country. It does not mean that the fact that we are not at war, we are at peace. We have used the word peace the way retired President Moi used to say “Peace, Love- and Unity” as a term of art. It is like the way we talk about “ Bonga points”. It is just another thing. People are quiet, miserable and suffering. How do these conflicts arise? Majority of them are created by the political class. They are the ones who have created fissures in this Republic. This is because everybody wants to benefit from the national resources. Why do we have the word “marginalised communities” 50 years after Independence? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, whilst it is good to make all these amendments as Sen. Elachi has proposed, on the aspect of peace where there is conflict, the objective of integration in this Republic has not been achieved and will not be achieved in the manner we are progressing. The national Government is giving a window dressing as to its integration. In achieving the objectives in the preamble of this Constitution, we should respect our ethnicity, diversity and religious or otherwise as a source of pride and not a source of looking down upon a community. I should not be looked down upon because I am a Kamba and we do not have a President or we will never produce a President or that we are few. That is what is called disintegration. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I strongly believe that as we amend - and I thank Sen. Elachi - we are still window dressing the problem. It is called “whitewash”. We hope that like Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale would say the “placebo effect”. Somehow, it will make us sleep well at night. It will not. Ten years from now, this issue will arise again. The proposal by Sen. Elachi in Clause 36 (a) is exactly the reason I said that most of the time you see the NCIC is when there is a conflict in Nandi County, for example. They are always doing the postmortem. They never quite address the issues in advance. It sometimes begs the question; what happened to the intelligence services? That is what Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o was alluding to; that before a conflict arises in Kajiado or Makueni counties about resources, somebody should know about it. There are usually early warning signs. We need preventive measures that someone will go there and ask them to stop fighting about the resources because if they are used properly, then we will not fight. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, therefore, there is need to develop a monitoring mechanism of peace building, for example, in Kapedo. This will involve ethical 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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