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    "content": "Those resources must also have local content. The Government can do this very easily by floating a company and putting it in the Stock Exchange and allow Kenyans to buy in shares. A Mama Mboga can buy shares with her Kshs5,000. At the end of the year, she gets another Kshs5,000. That is 100 per cent return per annum. If she put that money in a bank, they will give her an interest of 6 or 5 per cent. Kijana wa jua kali will put there his Kshs10,000 and get a dividend of Kshs 10,000, at the end of the year. That is how to grow the economy. I hope that this Senate, as a custodian of counties, will do this. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, regarding meeting the requirements of Chapter 6 of the Constitution, I said a person is not qualified for appointment as a member of the committee under Section 10, if he has violated Chapter 6 of the Constitution. That is all right. If he is bankrupt and has not been adjudged, that is fine. If you look at (c), this is where I always never agree. It says:- “Has been convicted of an offence and sentenced to imprisonment for a term of more than six months.” This blanket statement always gets me wondering. Supposing today as you drive home, a reckless driver coming from the other side collides with you. As usual, the police come and the man you collided with is richer than you and he bribes them. The police grab you and take you to court and you were just driving home. In court, the rich man who made the police charge the innocent still follows you because you have to be convicted for him to get insurance payment. He pays a magistrate who convicts and sends you to jail for 10 months. Raia ! Does that in itself exclude you from holding public office? I do not think so. We should qualify that persons convicted of fraud and offences of dishonesty are the ones who should not sit on public boards. For example, if you legitimately quarrel with your neighbour on a boundary where your neighbour moves your boundary and you ask him not to so. He continues to do so and insults you on top of that and you quarrel, he then uses his might, takes you to court and you are jailed. How does that preclude you from sitting in a public corporation? So, we must qualify this. This is because if we just blanketly say that if you have been jailed for six months, you cannot serve anywhere, then what is the purpose of us calling our prisons correctional services? We take people to prison to rehabilitate, correct and bring them back to be good people. In fact, I can tell you that if there had been no conviction, we know many fraudsters who have found their way in this Parliament. Some are even continuing, in fact, in the past, present, future and future continuous. You heard one of us here whose name I will not mention, busy every time we mentioned Ms. Ann Waiguru. They would jump in her defense as if they were being electrocuted. Now, they are the ones who are saying: “Ms. Waiguru is targeting me because I am close to so and so.”"
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