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"speaker_name": "Nambale, ANC",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Sakwa Bunyasi",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I almost thought that my request button is not working but it is actually working. I do support any move towards strengthening our value system and working within principles. If we followed that, we would not be where we are in terms of the contestation amongst our diversities. Going forward, there is always time to correct ourselves and do things differently. However, if we are going to do that, as leaders we must learn to speak the truth to the authorities and to ourselves. We have come from an era during which political formations prescribed details that distorted any kind of balance. I would ask that the Registrar of Political Parties, in reviewing coalition agreements, must look into those clauses that say that we shall divide all positions in half. If it is a two-way contest, it means that largely, there will be two communities in it even though they may attempt to increase the communities within the duos that enter these agreements. We must all be restrained explicitly. That is one. Secondly, the reporting arrangement has to be clear. How shall we know that it is being done even when it is agreed? The reporting arrangement needs to be clear and the violations need to be punished via election officers who manage, sit and preside over arrangements that distort this extremely important, though soft, considerations that this country needs at a time like this. I would expect that other than the Office of the Auditor General that should also look at this, any other agency should also report explicitly on it. When we do vetting here and accept recruitments, but there is no evidence that this institution is hiring in an efficient and diverse way, the argument that we sometimes get from amongst ourselves – that they are Kenyans – is unacceptable. Of course, they are all Kenyans. In fact, that is really not the issue. The point is that the relevant institutions should report at the end of the statutory period, confirming that they have hired an additional person and indicating what their demographic map would look like in their institutions or looking back into a year from the time they last hired. It is extremely important. However, I have one concern. We are at a transitional stage as communities in the modern era. We are still exclusively concerned - to a large extent - about where our mothers and fathers came from. That is the thing that defines our ethnicity. Going forward in the modern economy, we have to think about residence. If somebody is from Nambale in Busia and is a resident of Nairobi or was born in Nairobi, and is applying as a resident of Nairobi, you cannot categorise them or re-categorise them by virtue of their names or where their parents came from. That is retrogressive. We must grow to a point where residence progressively becomes the necessary consideration. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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