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    "id": 1033031,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1033031/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13373,
        "legal_name": "Owen Yaa Baya",
        "slug": "owen-yaa-baya"
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    "content": " Thank you very much Hon. Speaker. I, the UNDERSIGNED, on behalf of the Pemba people of Kenya, would like to present a Petition regarding the recognition of the Pemba people as citizens of the Republic of Kenya. I wish to draw the attention of the House to the following: THAT, the Pemba community whose population in Kenya exceeds 5,000 people is part of the 16 Swahili dialects of the traditional Swahili of Kenya whose root word Suhailya means “people residing on the shores of the ocean”; THAT, the Pemba People of Kenya are originally from the eponymous island in the Zanzibar Archipelago and were part of the Swahili states from Socotra all the way to Mozambique and Madagascar; THAT, the Swahili states as established accorded people not only freedom of movement, but also equal citizenship rights to settle, farm, marry and trade freely without restrictions, which formed the basis of negotiations between the Sultan of Zanzibar and the British Colonial Government on the administration of the Kenyan Coast Ten-Mile Strip; THAT, the Pemba community settled within the Ten-Mile Strip which was part of the Sultanate of Zanzibar and, therefore, under the sovereignty of the Sultan of Zanzibar and not under the British, and which was officially recognized as a Protectorate of Kenya; THAT, as the British ceded sovereignty over inland Kenya for independence in 1963, so did the Sultanate of Zanzibar cede sovereignty over the Ten-Mile Strip and, subsequently, Kenya became a country comprised of the Ten-Mile Strip where the Pemba community lived as well as the inland protectorate; THAT, the Pemba people were, therefore, no longer in the Sultanate of Zanzibar but in the newly formed country called Kenya but were, unfortunately, not listed as part of the indigenous communities of Kenya which has presented huge difficulties in accessing or replacing identity cards; THAT, majority of the Pemba community reside in Kilifi and Kwale where they live without identity and are stateless because they are not recognized in Kenya and have no nationality in Tanzania either, and while the Government of Kenya has accorded varying degrees of recognition to the Makonde Community as well as the Malakote Community of Tana River, the Pemba People of Kenya have not been accorded similar citizenship recognition;"
}