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    "id": 1065762,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1065762/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiharu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ndindi Nyoro",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13370,
        "legal_name": "Samson Ndindi Nyoro",
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    "content": "As economists, history is our laboratory. Judging by history and studying other countries that are like Kenya in so far as having many ethnicities is concerned, a country becomes cohesive when it starts focusing on identities other than the rigid and toxic ones like the negative ethnicity and religion. We do that through industrialisation. When you industrialise, people move from villages in the rural areas and settle in towns. When they do so, they establish other identities based on their professions, skills and work which are much better identities to deal with than the toxic ones like ethnicity and negative peddling of religion. We, therefore, have to stop being lazy. The reason why Kenyans fight, which is number one and the most prime, is a scramble for resources and recognition. That is where identity comes in. For us to build a cohesive Kenya, we have to focus on production that brings about industrialisation that brings people to urban areas and, therefore, the frontlines of negative ethnicity continue to diminish. I want to speak on the issue of corruption. It is being purported that BBI is coming with a cure for corruption. My proposal is that we go back to the country we call Kenya from 1963. I am a descendant of a Mau Mau freedom fighter. We have to ask ourselves critical questions. How comes the collaborators, the people who were fighting us as freedom fighters, and especially our forefathers, came to own over half of our country in terms of land mass? How come few families own traditional factors of production? Where did they buy these factors of production from? They keep telling us that they acquired the land through willing seller, willing buyer transactions. Can we be called to Uhuru Park and those people come with receipts to show us where they bought all the land and the factors of production from? I fear that even with the new knowledge and technology, the same people own the same factors of production. I want Safaricom PLC to one day tell Kenyans the people they have agreements with in this nation in as far as Fuliza and other feted borrowings are concerned. If we continue doing the same, the issue of shared prosperity is a sham. I say “No” to hypocrisy, lies, deception, conmanship and BBI. Mr. President, you promised our youth one million jobs, 500,000 houses per year, 100 per cent electrification by the Year 2020 and not BBI! But that has not been done."
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