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    "content": "information may not be very pleasant. There is a way in which they do communicate, and sometimes the language may not be very pleasant. He told me that he was just calling me to warn me because this matter was already in the media in Europe and also in the United States of America, and a lot of it will be coming in the next few days. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this information is now public knowledge. The US Government has apologized to many governments which they have rubbed the wrong way. Some unpleasant comments were made about the Chancellor of the German Government, the Italian President, French President, the new British Prime Minister and so on. So, Kenya is not alone in this. It was a communication which I felt was civilized; as a friendly government, they were taking the opportunity to let us know in advance what would come out. I want to reiterate here that the United States of America is a friendly government. We have not had any quarrel with them. We still have not received all that information about Kenya. So, we do not know how negative or positive it is for that matter. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want, therefore, to say that we, as a Government, are treating this as some kind of information which we were not entitled to. It was an internal communication and it has come out. We now know what some of our friends think about us. It is helpful because you can look at it as a criticism which is positive, in my view. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the plan to overthrow the Government, I am not privy to that information at all. All that we have informed the US Government is that whatever they are doing needs to be done within the framework of co-operation between the Government of the USA and the Kenya Government. If they want to empower the Kenyan youth, which we are also doing jointly with the World Bank, there is a proper fund through which they should channel their money. We have said that it will not be proper for any foreign envoy to come to this country and begin to recruit youths from different parts of the country and then put them together, supposedly to empower them, and tell them what to do with their country. This is all that we have said. But we have never interpreted any action as implying that any government wants to overthrow the Kenya Government. The Kenya Government will not be overthrown in that way. This Government, as all hon. Members know, is a stable Government politically. Therefore, it would take much more than hiring a few youths here and there and giving them money to overthrow this Government. Thank you."
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