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    "id": 1217830,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kwanza, FORD – K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ferdinand Wanyonyi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Temporary Speaker for the chance. I really did not know how to listen to my friend, the previous speaker. However, he has a right to speak in this House. Please, I hope he is an African. I am upset but it is nothing personal. Let me make my point. Somebody says he is right. I want to find out. Somebody said that the Supreme Court sat; that sitting should be in vain. We should not talk about it. When I see that ruling on the newspapers, I usually remove that page and throw it away because my children may read what has been written there and I do not like that. I am an African. Please, we are Africans. We are not going to import cultures that do not add value. There is African culture and European culture. I am not a lawyer; I am an economist. I want to be told by lawyers in this House if the Supreme Court judges are Africans. There is something that they missed. For us to be sitting here to discuss their judgement is an abuse of our culture that has brought me up to where I am today. For heaven’s sake, it should not waste our time here. We make laws for prosperity. We are not just going to take something because a white man has said it is good. I want to take this opportunity to condemn that ruling by the Supreme Court. The judges are Africans. I want to tell the President of the Supreme Court, the Chief Justice – I hope she is listening to us and following the proceedings – that that ruling was wrong. Was it because she wanted to pass time and get her salary? That was different. There are more important issues than that. In my culture, sodomy, for example, is criminal. You do not expect a man to sleep with another man. There are beautiful girls and women out there. How do you persuade a fellow man to sleep with you then you say it is legal?"
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