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    "speaker_name": "Ms. Ndung'u",
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        "legal_name": "Susanna Njoki Ndung'u",
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    "content": "For me, my first time to hear of tribalism was in this House. I think this is where tribalism is made and created by politicians. We then export it to wananchi . I would like to seek your guidance, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker! When people speak the way they have been doing in the last two weeks, producing lists from certain communities from where appointments have been made, would it not be in order for that hon. Member to bring a proper audit? If you say that there is favouritism in the Judiciary, then let us table the names of all the judges. That is when we will know whether there is one tribe which is being favoured over the others. It should not be on new appointments. You should look at the whole audit of the entire Judiciary. I feel pained about that issue. As a member of the younger generation, we do not want tribalism. It creates a lot of animosity. I think it is a question that this House should strive to stop. Finally, I would like to talk about the introduction of capital punishment for those found carrying illegal guns. I think as a country, we have really moved away from capital punishment and death penalty. Nobody who has been sentenced to death since 1987 has been killed. It is a dead law! Why do we want to introduce it? I think that those people who carry illegal firearms must be punished, but with real punishment; not things we are going to put in the books and never do. Let us move away from capital punishment and punish these criminals in a manner in which they will not repeat offences. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will once again go back to the issue of constitution review. We must pass some of the critical issues that have been proposed, particularly, by the Committee and hopefully in the negotiations. I would like to plead with hon. Members for us to remain focused on the proposals to amend Section 33 which is the Affirmative Action measure, to introduce more women and minorities into this House. I will also appeal to hon. Members to support the amendments on Section 91 which have to do with dual citizenship and which will also allow women to transfer their citizenship to children. March 29, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 261 Finally, I think it is important for us to look and re-amend Section 42 so that Parliament has a say in terms of additional constituencies. I think it is a shame that we can sit in Parliament and we are flouting the law. We should have added these constituencies last year but we did not do it. The Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) is linked to the hon. Member who represents the constituency. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to support."
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