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    "id": 1493737,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1493737/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 174,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Eldas, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Adan Keynan",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 41,
        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
        "slug": "adan-keynan"
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    "content": " The Preamble of the current constitution says: “We the people of Kenya- ACKNOWLEDGING the supremacy of the Almighty God of all creation: HONOURING those who heroically struggled to bring freedom and justice to our land: PROUD of our ethnic, cultural and religious diversity and determined to live in peace and unity as one indivisible sovereign nation.” This preamble is not out of the blue. The framers of the current Constitution had in mind what can bring together, under the sovereign Republic of Kenya, the membership of the 42 nation states including the Somali nation state, the Luo nation state and many other nation states. That being the case, there is no country that does not have a disadvantaged region because of nature. Even at the end of the Second World War, the Marshall Plan was a product to uplift the economic, social and political status of those vanquished nations. In our case, after we got our Independence, Sessional Paper No.10 of 1965 was a product of petty bourgeoisie, the privileged individuals, who wanted to further sideline those who were already sidelined. That is why when that Paper is mentioned, those of us from disadvantaged regions feel that, that is the second attempt in…"
}