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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the formation of this Commission is a great step in this country towards making the dream of having a fair Kenya, a reality. Many of us, who were in the previous Parliament and now this one, are very happy because this is a historic moment because we are passing the first instrument that will directly address the question of negative ethnicity in this country. When we were passing the substantive law here, I said that advanced democracies such as the United Kingdom have been around for many years and yet to date, they still have a National Cohesion Commission. That commission looks into any challenges for the people who feel not properly treated or discriminated against. They may be Kenyans living in Britain. They may be Indians or Australians and might have imported their culture to Britain. They may feel discriminated when their jobs are lost or job opportunities denied because of their ethnicity or country of origin. Even such nations which have a long history have kept the National Cohesion Commission in their country. I want to say that as we congratulate the Committee for its work, I would like the people who will sit in this Commission to be seized of the fact that they are not aligned to any political person, persons or parties in this country. Their loyalty is to the Republic of Kenya, and they are supposed to work for the people of Kenya. That is why we did not allow in the Act that the President or the Prime Minister, for that matter, to make the appointments. We wanted it to be clear that those people will work independently for the goodness and the unity of this nation."
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