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    "id": 1506692,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1506692/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Embakasi West, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mark Mwenje",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "George Theuri",
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    "content": " Every citizen has the right to free, fair and regular elections based on universal suffrage, and the free expression of the will of the electors for— (a) Any elective public body or office established under this Constitution. Hon. Speaker, I bring this matter to your attention and the attention of the House because there is a video going around in the social media regarding a specific religious leader who is speaking on an issue that touches on certain areas and. more specifically. Lamu. He specifically mentions that a certain community or people from a certain ethnic community should not vie for seats in such an area. Those of us who represent metropolitan constituencies like me where we have all the communities, it creates a lot of tension that is unnecessary. Right now, in that specific video, that religious leader mentions that the Kikuyu community should not vie in a specific area. Since the inception of our Constitution, the Late President Kibaki was once elected in Nairobi, and then he moved to a different area. The former Member for Dagoretti North moved to a different area. In fact, even in Embakasi, the last Member of the larger Embakasi went to vie in Kiambu, which is the trend. Members of minority communities are elected where there is another dominant community in an area. I believe this is a matter of grave attention which requires the Select Committee on National Cohesion and Equal Opportunity to advise on the action that will be taken against that specific leader. More importantly, we want the Leader of the Majority Party or Leader of the Minority Party to reassure the citizens of our country that everybody has a right to vie where he or she wants. Nobody should be discriminated based on ethnicity or any other form of"
}