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    "content": "“National security is the protection against internal and external threats to Kenya’s integrity and sovereignty, its people, their rights, freedoms, property, peace, stability and prosperity, and other national interests.” It is so comprehensive. This is a mandatory constitutional obligation bestowed or imposed on the Government by the supreme law of the country. I think it was Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., who said that peace is not necessarily the absence of conflict or war. In this country, we are so fixated with the issues of creating layers upon layers of management. The fact that the Majority Chief Whip felt it necessary to bring this Bill to the House is an admission of failure of the Government of the day to hold and discharge its responsibility to the people of Kenya under Article 238 and the Bill of Rights. You do not create peace by projects. In fact, some of those projects are the sources of conflict because we have polarized our country on ethnic lines to the level where we feel actually worried for our future, whether it is in counties or at the national level. I wish Sen.Elachi had brought a Bill to actualize the constitutional provision that even in the counties, there must be a mandatory provision of a third of the employees of that county - whether it is homogeneous or not - be Kenyans from other parts of the country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, like Hon. Ole Kaparo said the other day, when you go to a county called Nandi, the people think it is for Nandis. The case is similar when you go to Meru County, yet the same Constitution says that any Kenyan can live, own property and work anywhere in the country. This National Cohesion and Integration Commission, headed by my good friend Hon. Ole Kaparo, is like I said, a toothless bulldog; dogs that bark at the new moon at the beginning of every month, and wait for another new moon. They are busy chasing mirages instead of doing the real work. What is bedeviling peace in this country? You should look at successive governments. When H.E President Jomo Kenyatta was the President of this country - you can go back to history and check - half of the Permanent Secretaries of the country at one time came from Kiambu District. When President Moi came in, people were being sprung from prisons officers to managing directors of state corporations, from villages to national leadership without a process. If you went to the General Post Office (GPO), the lingua franca was the President’s language. H.E President Kibaki came and tried to do a little balance. Indeed, during the Grand Coalition Government, there was some element of national outlook in leadership positions in this country. He substantially eliminated corruption in the public sector by very strictly discouraging harambees. I recall that throughout the ten years of President Kibaki’s leadership, you never saw him in harambees, generously contributing money that he has stolen from the state coffers. We salute former President Kibaki for that. He never encouraged or participated in harambees. Then President Kenyatta the second came; they arrived with obscenities that are unprecedented in this country. Respect for public property became history; honor and integrity became history. Last weekend, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Deputy President was in my county and in one week, he contributed Kshs18 million in harambees. We know that harambees feed on corruption. They are busy looting the country. They are busy doing all manner of things. 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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