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    "content": "sensitive tool for achievement of national cohesion and integration. The gist of her intent is to see how some of the peace building projects can bring people together. We have the National Cohesion and Integrated Act which formed the NCIC as indicated in the Act of 2012. We have nine commissioners. What do we mean when we are talking about peace building projects? Although I am seated next to the proposer of this Bill, how do projects bring cohesion and peace? With the conviction of the hearts of Kenyans, we can live harmoniously together and owning up to some of the past mistakes that existed, we can move forward. I wonder why we have a Commission operating from Nairobi and trying to monitor 47 counties. I request Sen. Elachi to move further in this Bill and introduce a clause which says, “There shall be mandatory offices created in all the 47 counties which report directly to the Commission in Nairobi.” This is because when ethnicity takes place, it is not in the national arena, but in counties. We need to compel them to open offices in every county headquarters and officers be reporting directly to the NCIC in Nairobi. The officer who is in charge of that county should be called county officers. This should come from across the board. Like in West Pokot where I come from, the county NCIC officer should not necessarily be a Pokot and this should apply to all the 47 counties. We have a sizeable number of people who are patriotic enough to work for Kenya. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we are trying to heal something that we lost. In 1963, from the founding father of the nation until President Moi retired, there were mandatory lessons that would be given to primary and secondary school students, who would sing about the nation and the leadership. I remember in 1974, we were singing about a Minister called Dr. TaitaTowett. None of us knew who this person was, but we used to sing what he said. This means he was the spokesman and the implementer of the agenda of the nation. So we would sing across the country about the agenda of the nation and what Mzee Jomo Kenyatta said. We sang from class one and all the way to high school. Last week when we had the issue of Moi University, I heard my colleague, Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., talk about it. I wished he and other colleagues had consulted me because I worked in that university. It looks like we are giving heavy responsibility to Governor Mandago and Governor Tolgos. What triggered this thing to the extent that it exploded? It is because we did not do something somewhere right for a long time. We left this problem to get out of proportion without attending to it. In the process, we became reactionary. We saw Hon. Francis ole Kaparo on television warning on what could be done and what could not be done. Where were Hon. Francis Ole Kaparo and his team all these years? I am not blaming them. They have been with us for over five years now. I also saw some listing of university leaders. Who is the Vice-Chancellor of Jaramogi Oginga University? Who is the Vice-Chancellor of Meru University? Who is the Vice-Chancellor of Pwani University? Incidentally or by coincidence, most of the vice-chancellors of these universities are people coming from those regions and then we are quick to say there is ethnicity. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for example, in universities, you do not assign yourself to become a chancellor, you have to compete. After you have won and you happen to come from West Pokot, so be it. The other employees who work in that 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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