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    "id": 1236317,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Turkana Central, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Emathe",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker for this opportunity. I also want to thank Hon. Baya for bringing this Motion. I want to send my condolences to the families and friends of those we have lost as a country. The issue at hand is about religion. Karl Max said that religion is an opium of the poor or the people. Some at that time thought he was very crazy. Today, we have realised that people can use religion to meet their ends. Even during the time we were struggling for independence, for example, in Tanzania a man called Kinjekitile Ngwale used holy water and told his followers it would protect them from the German bullets. Again, when Europeans or missionaries came to Kenya, the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu used to say: ‘They came with the Bible and told us to pray, then we closed our eyes. When we opened our eyes, they had the land and we remained with the Bible.”. I visited Ghana and when you go to Fort Elmina, you will find two scenarios, above where the governor used to stay was a church and below was a dungeon. These were the same people who were preaching religion but also enslaving Africans. These are the dichotomies we need to understand, that there is the application of religion to enslave or to snatch."
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