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    "content": "taxes and they have to be assisted to do so because the money that they received is not theirs. A lawyer can get Kshs10 million or Kshs20 million but they may end up stating that they got Kshs2 million, Kshs3 million or Kshs1 million and the rest goes to political activities and rallies and so on and so forth. I agree with Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., that we should form a mediation committee if any disputes arise. That committee should not just be a mediation committee for the sake of it but it should be structured in a manner, with the involvement of the Senate, to perform its oversight responsibility. The Senate should approve members of a mediation committee. Members of the committee will work within the prescribed timeline and their report will come here and it will be approved in this House. I encourage that this should be the way to go. Sadly, in this nation, we play to the gallery. If you are keen, you will realise that most governors who are serving a second term are a bit relaxed. There is no much noise or fighting with their neighbours. There are very little activities in terms of incitements because during the first term, everybody tries to demonstrate that they want to be loved by the constituents. Sometimes we go the other route. We must take the higher standards of engaging our citizens. Regarding the situations of incitement, I can say it here without fear of contradiction that what is happening in Kitui is politics of populism. Even the governor of Kiambu has to respond through the politics of populism because everybody must be seen to be standing with his people. We as political leaders must expand the theory and the application of “my people”. Although you look at the immediate constituents where you have votes, the easiest thing to do is to tell them to insult others but you can tell them that you have chosen not to because you want to travel with them in the path of reconciliation and unity and keeping this country together. Since you may be governing a small jurisdiction, you can incite people in Nairobi against another community thinking that the same community does not live in Elgeyo Marakwet or Mombasa. Because of short-term interests, five, ten or twenty years down the line, you will be ashamed to stand anywhere in the Republic of Kenya and say that you are a Kenyan because you reduced yourself to become a villager. When citizens realise that you are an impediment, by misusing the community for purposes of populism, they will always deal with you seriously. Therefore, we must know what to tell our people even when we are dealing with boundary issues because we are Senators. We must apply the maturity demonstrated by Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. and Mr. Muthama who was the Senate Minority Whip. They never boxed each other here."
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