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    "id": 115822,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Eng. Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also want to take this opportunity to call on my colleagues and fellow Kenyans to, at all time, put our country before self, before various communities and even political parties that have brought us to this parliament. I know a number of my brothers and sisters have already expressed their wish to lead our country which is okay and within their constitutional rights. Indeed, leading this country is a unique privilege. But we, as Kenyans, must say that it should not be at any cost. Some of us who believe in this country get extremely alarmed, when less than 18 months after we had the worst crisis in our country, some leaders can actually stand up and propose balkanisation of our country into tribal groupings. I think this is something that we have to condemn as Kenyans of goodwill because our country at all times must be bigger than any grouping of tribal communities. I also wish to call upon our religious leaders to do more. I am not convinced that our religious leaders have done enough in fighting the scourge of ethnicity and tribalism in Kenya. More than 100 years ago, the Italians, Dutch and Germans came to this country to mainly spread Christianity. Those people could not speak our languages, but they settled among our people. Today, what you see is that Luo bishops are serving Luoland, Kamba bishops are serving in Kamba land and Kikuyu bishops are serving in Kikuyuland. The excuse being given is that it is easier for them to work there. We want to see a bold step from our religious leaders in fighting ethnicity. I want to start seeing Luo bishops serving in Kambaland, Kamba bishops serving in Luoland, and Luyia bishops serving in the Coast, so that it can be demonstrated that we are, indeed, very serious about fighting the scourge of ethnicity. It cannot be business as usual when we, politicians on Saturday call for tribal balkanization of our country and Sunday, we go to churches with big cheques and all that the leaders of the churches can say is that it is blessed to give than to receive. We must get out of this."
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