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    "id": 1151415,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the National Cohesion and Peace Building Bill, brought to this House by Sen. Pareno. She has said good things about the Bill. The Seconder has also cited some of the good things about the Bill. Therefore, allow me to be a bit critical, so that we can improve the Bill as it progresses. I also take note that this Bill has been before this House previously. It is because of the concurrence process that it has been brought back. However, it gives us an opportunity to maybe get a better understanding of what has been proposed. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in that last Parliament, I was a Member of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Cohesion. Back then, we had two Joint Committees of the National Assembly and the Senate, and this was one of them. I recall we were chaired by Sen. Sakaja and the Vice Chair was Sen. (Eng.) Hargura. Therefore, I have got a little bit of experience and background in dealing with the National Cohesion and Integration Commission. This Bill intends to establish the National Cohesion and Peace Building Commission (NCPBC). We already have the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC); probably, a matter of semantics. Part of the objective of this Bill is to outlaw discrimination on ethnic grounds; provide an institutional framework for national cohesion and peace building; and, to give effect to Articles 10 and 27 on promotion of national unity and non-discrimination on ethnic grounds. It further proposes to provide a framework for promotion of national values and principles. Of course, these are very important issues, which we dealt with during the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI). We also dealt with them when we were making certain proposals to amend the Constitution. It is because we realized that the greatest threat to the prosperity of Kenya, as a nation, were issues of division that were introduced as a result of competition for resources."
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