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    "id": 191782,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/191782/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Eseli",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 141,
        "legal_name": "David Eseli Simiyu",
        "slug": "david-eseli"
    },
    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to support this Bill. I feel vindicated because in my Maiden Speech in this House, I asked the Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs to expedite bringing a Bill to this Parliament to take care of our ethnic animosity. Ethnicity has reached such a point in this country that one fears for the future. I have had the opportunity to live under the three regimes, right from the Independence regime, through to the middle one and to the current one. But they all have one similarity: Ethnicity! Ethnicity is a cancer that is eating our very foundation gradually. In time, this nation will crumble, as, indeed, almost happened after the 27th December, 2007 elections. It has got to a point where ethnicity has permeated our political systems to the extent that every political party is associated with certain ethnic groups. It is such that if you are not with party, then you are with a different ethnic group. It reached a point where, even our children, who did not know anything about ethnicity, now it has become part of their lifestyle. Our method of governance has actually entrenched ethnicity in our children. We have the so-called district focus where a child 1520 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES July 1, 2008 born in Kakamega will go to nursery school in Kakamega, secondary school in Kakamega and even university in Kakamega! He or she has never seen any other person from any other tribe. When that child is finally posted to go and work in North Eastern, he will think that all Somalis are"
}