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    "id": 1276330,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1276330/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Committee on County Public Accounts, to appoint people from minority communities to serve in the county government. This is in complying with the law. We propose that marginalised communities should even have special opportunities and attention during hiring. We should escalate this to the ongoing recruitment in the Kenya Army, hiring in the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) and the Kenya Police, among other opportunities by national Government. Normally, they argue that people from marginalised communities, Persons with Disabilities (PwD) and minorities are encouraged to apply. However, when it comes to the actual hiring, they do not do it. Article 56(c) and (d) of the Constitution states that- “The State shall put in place affirmative action programmes designed to ensure that minorities and marginalised groups— (c) Are provided special opportunities for access to employment. (d) Develop their cultural values, languages and practices.” I come from the Ogiek Community which has a population of 20,000. They are located in Tinderet Sub-County and consider the forest their home. They have their own practices and culture that the Constitution recognises. I do not know why they are always being evicted from forests such as the Mau Forest, yet the Ogiek Community’s natural habitat is the forest. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I was your predecessor as the Chairperson of the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights. During my time, I had the opportunity to visit Pernambuco and other four States in Brazil, to discuss the protection of the Amazon. The Amazon is facing many challenges. I saw a documentary where illegal loggers are in the Amazon Region. The Brazilian Government has allowed them to live in the forest. We are not saying we should borrow this model for the Shamba System in Kenya. We want the Ogiek Community to be allowed to live in the forest because that is their habitat. If they are allowed to live in the forest, they will not destroy it. The people who destroy the forest are the illegal loggers. I have never met the Ogiek who consider the"
}