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"content": "our political trajectory to give this country an opportunity for another beginning happened. I laud President Uhuru Kenyatta and the Rt. Hon. Former Prime Minister, Raila Odinga, for the statesmanship that they have shown to the country. Regardless of what many people think, the ultimate has been the temperature of politics in the country has gone down. This is want Kenyans want. There will always be skeptics. Even when young Jesus was born, some self-styled wise men wondered whether anything good could come from Nazareth. Jesus came to save the world and we have all been saved by him. Mr. Speaker, Sir, on Monday, our coalition of four principals plus our co-chairs; that is, Sen. Orengo, hon. Eseli Simiyu, hon. Johnstone Muthama and hon. Sakwa Bunyasi met. The Rt. Hon. Former Prime Minister briefed us fully on what the former President of Uganda, Idi Amin could call ‘briefing in details’. We all appreciated the steps taken and what has been achieved, so far. We jointly issued a statement that; one, we unconditionally support the initiative taken by the two statesmen. Two, that we would want to take the process forward by engaging in a constructive, all inclusive and open dialogue that would heal the gaps and rifts that this country has hitherto gone through in the process of elections. This process will not be easy. I encourage the two leaders and other leaders in this House, to be fully committed and supportive. Not everybody will get what they want or expect. However, the country will be richer and better if we bring sanity and good hygiene into our politics. I say so because we have gone through a very bruising campaign. We have called each other names, described each other in very unpalatable terms; obscenities have been hurled at each other, falsehoods and fake news have been generated against individuals but at the end of the day, we have said and we repeat, there is no spare Kenya. There is only one country called Kenya and every patriotic Kenyan has a legal and moral duty to contribute to the peace, stability and security of this country. The two leaders said that they now want this country to embrace not only dialogue in good faith, but inclusivity in the management and running of our public affairs. I want to assure this country that the Government that I will lead in future will have a Cabinet Secretary (CS) from the El Molo and even the Makonde communities. That way, Kenyans from everywhere can feel that this country is not about the so called big five or big two. This is because, until and unless every Kenyan has a sense of belonging, trust and ownership of the process of developing this country, we will continue having these altercations that will, every five years, reverse the gains that we have made in the process of development. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as we move forward, we have to also caution ourselves that a good idea such as this must be time bound. Time becomes the complete essence of what we are doing so that the exuberance, steam and desire by every Kenyan to see that a new Kenya is born--- Like in the village where a woman who has been in marriage for 10 to15 years without a child eventually gets a child, the whole village descends on her home to see, touch and celebrate the child and ensure that the child is not for that family but for the village and the community. This is what it is now. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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