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    "id": 1065703,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1065703/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tongaren, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Eseli Simiyu",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 141,
        "legal_name": "David Eseli Simiyu",
        "slug": "david-eseli"
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    "content": "you that all of us here are very patriotic to our nations. Our nations are our tribes. We are very patriotic to them. Sometimes we need laws that will make us look at the nation as a whole. This kind of tinkering with the Constitution will have to go on. The only thing we need to be alive to is this: We should not tinker with the Constitution to benefit certain individuals. We should only tinker with it to benefit the country and make our lives better. This is a good beginning. People should not tire. Those who will be in the next Parliament can also look at what might not be right and try and correct it. As I said, democracy is a foreign concept to us. It is the white people who came here, disrupted our lives, lumped us together in one country and called us Kenya. We have to find a way to live together. The only way we can do that is by having laws and constitutions in place that will make it possible for us to live together. Where I come from, if I wanted to marry a wife, I must have some cows. My father would probably be called upon to pay that dowry for me. I know some other communities where for a young man to get a wife, he has to go and steal cattle to pay for the wife. That is very normal for them. For me, it would be abnormal. We are different nationalities and we need to accept that. We need to put in laws that help us live, work and develop the country together and have a common destiny for our country. All this will wear off in future. Culture changes! Culture is dynamic. In future, I am sure as we continue interacting with each other, eventually our culture will materialise. Our culture will become one and we will be one community. As of now, we need those laws. In the next Parliament, I hope that those who will come here will look at the laws of Singapore and Mauritius and see how those countries have managed to handle their tribalism, so that they have job quotas for each community in those countries. We need to do that here so that in the public service, every community is represented. I support the Bill and pray that all Kenyans support it, so that we continue with the journey of building Kenya."
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