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    "id": 103581,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Midiwo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "I rise to support the adoption of this Report. I want to thank the three Departmental Committees for the work they have done. But particularly I want to thank the Committee of Equal Opportunity. I want to remind you that the reason why that Committee was created was for reasons such as this and they are rampant all over. I think your work is cut out for you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have passed laws in the recent past in this House and one of them requires that a certain percentage of particular individuals from a certain community should be employed in any Government institution, parastatal or department. We want to see the Committee of Equal Opportunities taking up that job and doing it to the expectation of Kenyans. As you know, the issue of tribalism is the biggest vice alongside corruption in this country. That is what we are struggling very hard to kill. The realisation by the Committee that it is not the civil servants that we need to be criminalising--- A few months ago when some civil servants were relieved of their duties and politicians were left, I disagreed with that. I think people who take the lead in these things all the time are the politicians. So I do not think we should live above the law. In this case, I want to agree that the Minister should regularise this employment but it should be as a last example so that everybody does the right thing when they need to for the sake of harmony because we need to do right and good for our country. I beg to support."
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