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    "content": "force was set up and it went ahead to get views from people from all over the counties on the emotive matter of land. They had public participation on land laws and they wanted to come up with regulations. The task force was composed of 18 people and 14 out of the 18 members were from one community. Only four came from two other communities in Kenya yet we have over 42 communities in this country. I expect a composition that has the face of Kenya in every appointment that is done in this country. That board was selected sometime around April last year and they did their work from April up to May. Were we fair as a country? Did we look at ourselves and give everybody a chance? We did not. I expect the spirit of the handshake to bring back harmony in this country. The President passionately talked about a united Kenya. I have never seen in my life such level of disunity in this republic like I witnessed last year until the handshake. I told the President and the people’s president that their legacy will be determined by how united we will be as a republic from their handshake. We had Kenyans calling for I do not know “Central Republic of Kenya” and others calling for the “People’s Republic of Kenya”. We even had maps drawn. I believe that this is what has touched the President and the Rt. Hon. Raila Amolo Odinga, that we cannot have a divided Kenya. We shall rally behind them because our hopes are on them. I believe that this time they are all up to the task to unite this country. I applaud the President for talking so much about unity and the handshake. You will remember some of us were resisting everything because we felt that we were oppressed. Without justice, we cannot even achieve the unity. I can see my time is over and I want to conclude by saying that for unity to be there, we should deal with justice first. The person who killed Musando did not want unity in this country, the person who killed baby Pendo did not want unity in this country and the person who refused to open the servers when the court ordered so disobeyed the court orders. A person who continues to disobey court orders does not want unity in this country. I salute the President and the Rt. Hon. Raila Amolo Odinga for asking us to sober up and get united as a country. The President used very passionate words. He said that never again should Kenyan lives be lost for political sake. Let us walk the talk. We shall follow those words and ensure that never again shall we have to lose lives because of politics but if we do not fix the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) and go back on the reforms like the ones we did by amending what we had already agreed on, then we will just be talking without being serious. The President talked about the SGR and I only have one thing to say about it. It is a good project. There were good intentions but we missed something. While other countries have done the same kind of projects with less money, we ended up doing the track alone using three times the international standards of cost that was expected and four times the original estimates. So, if we do not deal with corruption in this country and burry it under the sand like we did with the “Chickengate”, Goldenberg and the National Youth Service (NYS) Scandal, this country will never be. I rest my case."
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