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    "id": 1126870,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1126870/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker and the incoming Governor of Narok County, for giving me the opportunity to support this Bill. I know Hon. Wanga is very excited because female Members of Parliament will dominate governorships in 2022. Most likely, one of you will be the Chairlady of the Council of Governors (CoG). I support this Bill because it is a long overdue move. If the Act has been dormant for more than 30 years, it is in good faith that the Committee thought it good to do away with it. The Act is not just being repealed because of it being dormant. It was a kind of segregation that prejudiced Asians and pitted them against other Kenyans. If you have a fund that is specific to a race, you are either saying that that race is superior to the rest, or the rest are superior to that race, and that is why we cannot use the same pension. It was colonial. You remember that in the colonial days, there was a kind of segregation which even affected our schools. There were different schools for Africans, Whites and Asians. That racial discrimination is what the whole world is against. If the Committee thought that we should repeal it and do away with it…"
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