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    "id": 1065662,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": " Once again, thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity especially on this very important day in the calendar of this country; a constitutional moment. You are right because at 1:30 p.m., we already had enough quorum. At the outset, I support this Bill. It is important so that we can move forward together as a country. Hon. Speaker, we do have a few issues with it, but, of course, no document will ever be perfect. One of them is on the issue of inclusivity. Here, we are tending to create around three more positions making it five. The problem that is bedeviling this country is ethnic negativity. If we go that way, we will only include five tribes and exclude 37 other tribes. That may be equated to exclusivity and not inclusivity. So, in future, if we have to amend this Constitution, we will think of inclusivity in terms of probably having the President being a man, the deputy being a woman, the prime minister being a person living with disability, the deputy prime minister being a youth, so that we can bring the real issue of inclusivity. However, if we bring inclusivity in terms of tribes, it will end up being exclusivity. We have more than 42 tribes in this country and we cannot have all of them in the apex of leadership. Hon. Speaker, why am I talking of the Prime Minister position? I may vie in 2032 as a crawling mate to Moses Kuria. You know I will not run faster than him. Hon. Speaker, on this issue of the winner takes it all…"
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