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    "id": 1270809,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1270809/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Masinga, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joshua Mwalyo",
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    "content": "This Bill has come at a time when we need to put our heads together and bring this country together so that we are not divided. When we sit together, we tend to speak in our mother tongue and so we expel other people near us who do not speak our language because they do not understand what we are saying. Another Bill should be brought to bar public officers from speaking in their mother tongues while on duty. Nobody should do whatever is not right in this country. The other day, we went to Rwanda and found out that you cannot force people to go to your church. Everybody has goodwill. There is no bell or mosque sound. In this country, we have Imams who call people to go to their mosques for prayers in the morning. There is nothing like that in Rwanda. Everybody has a will to go wherever they want because it is a country that is governed by the rule of law. We need to reach that position where there is no difference between me and Hon. Dawood. He should not be discriminated against just because his skin is light. Likewise, I should not be discriminated against because I am dark skinned. We are all Kenyans and every Kenyan deserves to be treated the same as other Kenyans. One deserves to be employed in whichever position he is qualified for and in whichever county he applies for the job. You also find that contractors who apply for jobs in other counties have their addresses checked in the tender forms. If they have filled that they come from Machakos, and the job is in Busia, just on the basis of the address alone, his tender is rejected. We need to bring this to The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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