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    "id": 1556710,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1556710/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Murugara",
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    "content": " Thank you very much for allowing me to support this timely Petition by Hon. Patrick Munene Ntwiga of Chuka/ Igambang’ombe. As it has clearly explained, the colonialists did many injustices when they came to Kenya—one of them being lamping many communities together and naming them as one tribe—as a result of which communities almost lost their identity until they were recognised as separate and distinct from one another. A good example is our Tharaka-Nithi County that has four distinct communities: Tharaka, Chuka, Mwimbi and Muthambi. It becomes difficult because of this, especially when the rest of the communities in Tharaka-Nithi are simply termed as the Ameru. Meru is the larger county within the region. The time has come for the Chuka to be recognised as a distinct community in Tharaka- Nithi. The same is going to apply to the Muthambi and Mwimbi. When the time comes, I will appear before the Public Petitions Committees to support this Petition and shed more light on why this recognition is necessary. I will also plead for the Muthambi and the Mwimbi cases that are also in my Tharaka-Nithi County. For Meru, we leave it as it is because it has three distinct communities that are put together as Ameru. That being another county, it is a story for another day. I support this. I will appear before the Public Petitions Committee to render credence to the Petition by Hon. Munene."
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