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"content": "These hon. Members, honorable as they are, as they retreat the way they did last night; and the way they have been doing in their tribal cocoons, let them know that, they are writing in very big letters that, to them, tribes come before Kenya. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to remind hon. Members that we are all brave men and women in this House. I urge them to rise and shed off the unwanted, useless and unhelpful tag of ethnic jingoists. It has never helped any country in the history of mankind and it is not about to help Kenya. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, just for this once, I want to beg you to allow me to mention two or three ethnic communities in this country. I want to mention my own community, the Abaluhya. I want to mention Kikuyu, Kisii and Somali communities. Those are three communities which have successfully moved from the natural habitats where their grandparents left them 200 years ago. They have gone and ventured into other areas of this country. At any one time, if you pass a Constitution in this country that embraces regionalism, I have no doubt in my mind that any hon. Member would look at that regionalism to mean that more resources will go to his or her region. That is a good thing! But the consumers in that region - the youth and the old men on the ground - will take advantage of that region to perpetuate ethnic chauvinism. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is this community nationalism that has, over the years, visited the tribes that I have said before; every year or every general election. We have to bury our people because they have settled elsewhere. Other communities have to do the same. Therefore, if we have this opportunity to write a law that will protect those people who normally die for no reason during an election, why do we not do it? You know, the people who die are not these tough politicians! When you look at television footages and see Luhyas running - you have allowed me to use that word - you will see a woman with an old torn mattress rolled on the head; she is pregnant, carrying a child on the back and on her side, a child of five years or so is carrying a hen in his or her armpit. You will find the husband following with a jembe and holding the rope of a cow. We do not want to be seen like that when we have gone to school so well. We have come there to exercise our brains so that we can meet with minds from other communities in this country! Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is going to be made so easy for us because our business has never been made easier! The Committee of Experts (CoE) and the Parliamentary Select Committee have synthesized for us all the divergent views into this draft. We have all, individually and collectively, read the draft and we have found that, actually, there is nothing threatening any community in that draft. There is nothing threatening any gender in that draft. There is nothing threatening any so-called marginalized or minority communities in this country! All that has been enshrined in that document is affirmative action to pull our own brothers who come from those respective minorities and marginalized communities. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have to do the simplest thing which, in my view, is merely to clear and forward the document to the final stage. If we are"
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