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    "id": 1065824,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kibiru",
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        "legal_name": "Charles Reubenson Kibiru",
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    "content": "Thank you, Sen. Wambua for that correction. I meant amendment of the Bill. To me, we are about 97 percent in terms of achieving some of the issues that needed to be highlighted during the amendment and passage of the 2010 Constitution. Mr. Speaker, Sir, while I was listening, I was shocked because everybody including my friend who has just spoken and corrected me on the issue of the amendment, are all talking about some seeds going to a certain region. Time and again, some of us always feel a bit uncomfortable when Kenyans stand up and start talking about some populous people from Mt. Kenya. We did not choose to be born there. For the record, I attended my high school in South Nyanza. My best man comes from Siaya, so I am a Kenyan. When some people stand every time to say that Mt. Kenya is unfairly benefiting, we feel slighted. We are Kenyans like any other person and we have a right to be Kenyans. I want to tell the people who stand up every now and then to propagate some propaganda that Mt. Kenya is benefiting that we do not benefit; we work hard. It should be on record that Mt. Kenya works hard and we should never be seen as being favored by anybody. Mr. Speaker, Sir, some of us came from very rural areas and we have been able to eke a living up to where we have reached. Let us all look at one another as Kenyans. The other day when the coffee rate came up, the highest rate that came out ---"
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