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    "id": 1337119,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1337119/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support that Statement by Hon. Captain Ruweida. Issues of Lamu are issues of the Coast Region, where many communities have come together. For us to continue to coexist, we need to respect all communities. Inflammatory remarks by one community against another will make the Coast Region ungovernable. I would like to ask leaders from the Coast, of whatever tribe, to see themselves as coastal leaders and not as an extension of their community. That is the only way we can live harmoniously. Whatever is happening in Lamu must be condemned because it is criminal. People killing others is criminal and should not be seen as tribal or as one tribe against another. Those are criminal acts and those criminals must be brought to book. Many Giriama live in Lamu and have been affected by the killings. I cannot stand here as a leader and say that the Bajuni or the Kikuyu are fighting the Giriama. Those are criminals who should be arrested and put where they are supposed to be. We should not make inflammatory remarks against one community. If we go in that direction, Lamu will be ungovernable. When people start digging into history and saying, “We came here earlier, and you people did not” or “This is our place”, they ignore that all of us belong to Kenya. The people of Lamu belong to Lamu and all of them belong to Lamu. We cannot accept inflammatory remarks made by leaders in a flagrant way such that communities are now taking positions against each other. Leaders in Lamu must come together and sit down as leaders of Lamu. Not leaders who are in Lamu by extension of another community or tribe. That is wrong. The people of Lamu elected leaders the way they are. One from the Bajuni community, another one from the Kikuyu tribe and another from whatever tribe. They put them together to work together for the benefit of the Lamu community. The problem starts when we start segregating people by saying that we are leaders from Lamu but we come from this or that region. That is why people are losing their lives. The more leaders grandstand, the more people will lose in Lamu."
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