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    "content": "Even within the opposition coalition where I belong, I am surprised to hear that some of our Members are linked to much talked about loss of funds at the National Youth Service (NYS). The NYS saga is mega corruption in this country. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there is falsehood that is being spread from our opposition side of leadership that so and so stole and so and so is doing this and that. It is even worse on the Government side. We have the President and his own sister being mentioned in corruption scandals. Even the Deputy President has been put in a corner to defend himself and his officers. Therefore, without taking sides, the biggest question is who will stand to protect poor Kenyans. If you look in our archives of what has been happening in this country and the speeches by first President, the late Jomo Kenyatta, serious issues were raised yet nothing was done. In Moi’s Government, we had the “five bearded sisters”; Anyona, Martin Shikuku, among other as the best debaters in the August House. At some point, Martin Shikuku was referred to as the people’s watchman. All those debates and archives were to defend the poor yet no action was taken. I was in the Tenth Parliament under President Kibaki where we had Cabinet Ministers who stepped aside to be investigated. The issues were concluded just as they are being concluded now in the Fifth year of President Uhuru Kenyatta. For how long shall we pretend to be true representatives of the people from whom every five years we go back to ask them to elect us to come back here? All we see from the elected leaders are nice suits imported from Italy and big Mercedes Benz cars. Their issues are not resolved whereas they vote in every general election. This is a shame to the head of State to say; what exactly do you want me to do? I have done my part with the corruption.” If the Head of State can raise that question, is this the end of our lives in this country? The President needs to take action. He just needs to make a few steps from where he is sitting, leave the people he is sitting with and tell them that he belongs to the people who elected him. He should take the risk. I know our President very well but his courage will be determined by what action he takes against corrupt people regardless of the outcome of his re-election. He should defy his tribesmen who are holding him captive under one party. He went ahead to encourage those with him in the Jubilee Coalition to come up with one political party. It is unacceptable for him to say that he does not know what to do with corruption. If it is true that people are bewitched, then President Uhuru Kenyatta is bewitched. That is not the man I knew. He could not have performed in that manner."
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