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    "id": 164177,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/164177/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang'-Nyong'o",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Medical Services",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
        "slug": "peter-nyongo"
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, what has happened in our country is: If you go to a place like Turkana and you are expected to deliver the same kind of services that you deliver in Kisumu Rural, you cannot because Kisumu Rural is different. Kisumu Rural has a lot of water and people live together. If you built a dispensary there, it will serve a big population. If you go to Turkana South where my friend, Mr. Nanok comes from, people live very far away from each other. It is a dry area. So, we should establish institutions and processes that are realistic to the mode of production of those people. That way, you will really give them the kind of human resources facilities that they need. Therefore, I do believe quite seriously that the promotion is very realistic because given the historic conditions we have developed through up to now, those people have been disadvantaged. So, you cannot use the same threshold of qualifications for them as you do elsewhere because the opportunities have not been equal. If the opportunities have been different, then we must employ what we call affirmative action. That is what the women are also saying. Like my friend who is looking at me over there! They are saying that there have been too many vikwazos in our history. Let us now bring affirmative action so that we can go over the hump, create new opportunities and, once we do that, we can compete at the same level."
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