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    "content": "Alliance (NASA) coalition come out strongly and condemn this young man and ask him to apologise. I saw him saying he has nothing to apologise for. I thank Hon. Passaris for apologising to Mama Ngina. It is really unthinkable. We used to be told by our parents that when you walk and meet an elderly person, you step aside for them to pass. This could be the grandmother to Hon. Babu Owino. The President is a father figure to him. This Hon. Owino is the age of the President’s children. Where are we leading our country to? I would have expected the hon. former Prime Minister to condemn the utterances by this young man and advise him on how to behave. Could it be that is what he is encouraging when he goes on top of vehicles and says the kind of things we hear on his campaign trail? I would like to urge our leaders that we teach our children good manners. Where is this country heading to? What are our children hearing in schools? It is very disturbing. I hope that this young Member of Parliament will rethink his words and apologise. Of course, he is copying what also has been said before. We heard the kind of abuse before from Hon. Millie Odhiambo and nothing happened to her. In fact, she was glorified. After that, you would see her in the company of the mighty. It is just like when you hear children abuse a grown-up, they used to say, “ Ametumwa .” He or she has been sent. Could we take it that maybe these people have been sent to abuse leaders in this country? If that is the case then, that is not leadership at all. That is not a person who should aspire to be a leader of this nation. We must teach our children good manners. We must be a respectable country. People out there are wondering what is happening here. We are a greatly respected nation in this world. Let us not spoil our good name. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have seen what is happening to our economy. We know Kenya’s economy is growing. However, we would like to see it grow more. This can only happen if there is peace in this county. Investors will only invest in a peaceful environment. Tourists want to come to Kenya. The other day Diani Beach was voted the best in the world. Why do we want to pour water on all these accolades which God has given us by the kind of words we are uttering and the way we are making our country look bad in the eyes of the international community? Let us all agree to live in peace. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the President accepted to go back to elections, although for all intents and purposes, we all know he had won the election because it is the votes that count more than anything else. Since there was no problem with the voting, voter identification and counting, let us go to the debes and see what is inside. We are told the problem came with the transmission. I was surprised to hear the Senate Minority Leader say that if we insist on opening the debes, they will insist on the opening of the IEBC servers. What do the servers have to do with the votes which are in the debes? That is a sign that the Opposition Principals do not want us to know the truth about who won the election or to open the debes. We should be honest with ourselves. There will always be winners and losers in an election. However, that should not make a country lose respect because of what we say and do after that. I want to urge my colleagues on the other side to come back to the House and debate. This House is for debate. The debate should not be out there. I hope that the International Criminal Court (ICC) is listening and; they should know that they charged"
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