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    "id": 315704,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/315704/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Otieno",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for Public Service",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I just want to make a very brief comment on this. Our duty here as Parliament is legislation and what we pass here is called an Act of Parliament. It is not enough to call on the Government to act, particularly where the area of legislation is still inadequate. There is this new area of national integration and hate speech. Because these things do not come slowly; we can see it coming. This is how Osama developed his mission. Within Kenya here, this is how the Mungiki developed. We have to start examining the new areas of legislation that will deal effectively with hate speech; the new area of legislation that will be able to govern freedom of worship, freedom of expression and where freedom of worship and freedom of expression are directed at destroying other freedoms of worship and so on. We need to develop that legislation so that police can find it easy to implement such legislation and deal with these trends before they consume us in this kind of fire that we saw in Mombasa. Not even we, the ethnic communities fighting one another; it starts with some leader mobilizing the citizens or the youth by hate speech against the other communities. The area of hate speech requires further development by way of legislation. A task force should be formed to examine this new area of social legislation that would help strengthen our national integration."
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