Clerk Speech
We observe today not a short recess speeches but a celebration of freedom symbolizing and end as well a beginning, signifying renewal as well as change. Fore I have sworn before you and Almighty God the solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly centuries.
The world is very different now. For a man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of poverty, enmity and disagreements. And yet the same devolutionary belief; which our forebears is still at issue around the globe, the belief that the rights of a man come not from the generosity of the power but from the hand of God.
We dare to forget today that we are heirs of the first devolution government. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friends and foe alike, that the torch has passed to our County, born in this house, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this county has committed and which we are committed at home and around the country.
Let everybody know , whether wishes us well or ill, that we shall not again pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any foe and oppose any friend to assure the survival and success of liberty in this County Assembly.
This much we pledge and more to those old allies whose cultural and spiritual origin we share, we pledge the loyalty of fruitful friends. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided; there is little we can do, for we dare not meet a powerful challenges and odds and split asunder.
To those new rivals whom we welcome to the ranks of free: we pledge our word that once from our united control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by far more tyranny. We shall not always found them supporting our views. We shall always find them strongly supporting their own freedom, and to remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.
To those people in huts and villages of half globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them, for whatever period is required, not because the county may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is the right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
To our sisters and brothers who still wish us disastrous events; we offer a special pledge to convert our good words into good deeds in a new alliance for progress, to assist free man and free governments in casting of the chains of plurality. But this peaceful celebration of hope cannot become the pray of hostile powers.
To this County Assembly of sovereign minds: our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge for support: To prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective, to strengthen its shield of the new and the week, and to enlarge in area in which its writs our run.
And finally, to those folks who will make themselves our advisory: we offer not a pledge but a request; that both sides begin a new quest for peace, before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or self- destruction.
Honorable members, my office as clerk will dare tempt you with weakens; for only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain with my office.
So let us begin a new, remembering on both sides that civility is not assign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear but let us not fear to negotiate.
As a clerk, I advise you that if a compromise comes again, let both side explore what problems unites us instead of belaboring those problems which divides us.
Let both sides, for the first time, formulates serious and precise proposals for the inspection and control of arms and brings the absolute power to bring peace among us.
Let us all unite to heed in all corners of the earth in the command of Isaiah to “undo the heavy burdens and let the oppressed go free”
Let us both join in creating a new endeavor, not new balance of power, but a new Assembly of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.
In your hands my dear honorable members: more than mine will rest the final success or the failure our course. This county was founded, each generation of natives have summoned to give testimony to its loyalty .The youths of this county who are going outside to seek jobs and education but only to meets their deaths. The graves of natives who answered the call to service surround the globe, talk of the recent massacre in Kinyoro, Entebess and other wards, the innocent citizens are laying their bodies waiting for our ordination.
Now the trumpet summons us again-not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are, but a call of to bear the burden of the waiting twilight struggle, year in year out, rejoice in hope patient in tribulation and there in, we will leave as brothers and sisters from one mother in this County Assembly.
I therefore request you whether we have been deferred in opinions or in offices; I ask to here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice. With good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the people we love.
I am again asking your blessings and your help for this County Assembly to move forward and be a beacon of hope to our people.
Thank you and May God bless you.
