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    "id": 1210871,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mariam Omar",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise, pursuant to Standing Order 52 (1) to make a Statement on a matter of national concern, namely; to register my displeasure in the manner in which our public educational institutions are treating our Muslim girls, by restricting the observance of their faith through banning them from wearing the hijab, which is a blatant discrimination of enjoyment of their right to education. Mr. Speaker, Sir, whereas Kenya is a secular State, it is not founded on hostility to religion. Rather, the Constitution itself, in the Preamble, acknowledges the supremacy of Almighty God and contains in its Second Schedule, the National Anthem, which is a prayer invoking God’s Lordship over the Nation. The people of Kenya in the Preamble to the Constitution proclaim that we are:- “Proud of our ethnic, cultural and religious diversity and determined to live in peace and unity as one indivisible sovereign Nation.” This shows that it is incumbent upon all schools to teach students from an early age determination to live in peace undivided in spite of diversity at micro and national level, must be translated even at micro school community."
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