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    "id": 1079561,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1079561/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kibra, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Benard Okoth",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13530,
        "legal_name": "Benard Imran Otieno Okoth",
        "slug": "benard-imran-otieno-okoth"
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    "content": "THAT, despite the Nubian Community being a marginalised and a minority community, the Government has failed to implement any affirmative action or policy to ensure active participation of Nubians in employment under the Public Service Commission (PSC), access to water, health, education and infrastructure as well as public participation in social, economic and political matters; THAT, no member of the Nubian Community has ever been listed in any Government portal with regard to application, shortlisting or recruitment in the Civil Service; THAT, Nubians are discriminated against along ethnicity and religious lines with regard to accessing identification documentation as exemplified by the fact that they are required to provide additional documents in support of their claims of Kenyan nationality such as religious certificates and grandparents’ identity cards, are required to face a vetting committee and have to swear an affidavit unlike other Kenyans; THAT, Nubians’ right to Kenyan nationality has been acknowledged by the African Committee of Experts on the Rights of the Child as well as the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights, and hence the Kenyan Government needs to likewise acknowledge this right particularly in view of the fact that Kenya has already ratified several international and regional instruments addressing the rights to nationality; THAT, efforts by the Nubian Community to have this matter addressed by the relevant Government authorities have been futile; and, THAT, the matters raised in this Petition are not pending in any court of law in Kenya. Now, therefore, your humble petitioners pray that the National Assembly, through the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security: (a) intervenes with the view to securing the recognition of the Nubian Community as a marginalised and minority community in Kenya; (b) secure the granting of citizenship status to the members of the Nubian Community in transparent and non-discriminatory processes; (c) secures the inclusion of the Nubians in all Government portals; and, (d) makes any other recommendation that it deems fit in the circumstances of the Petition. And your petitioners will ever pray. I thank you."
}