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    "id": 41485,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bishop Wanjiru",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Housing",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 372,
        "legal_name": "Margaret Wanjiru Kariuki",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I support this Motion, I represent the Starehe Constituency which is a cosmopolitan constituency. In Starehe, we have no tribalism. You cannot even stand in a baraza and address the people in one ethnic language. It does not work. You address the people of Starehe in Kiswahili or English and they will understand, but you cannot pick one ethnic language because we are mixed up and we have learnt how to destroy tribalism. When you go to schools in the villages which operate from the grassroots, you will not find the students interacting with each other in their ethnic languages. If you go to the base where the youth meet and interact with each other, even at the village level, you will not find them in one ethnic group. The problem of tribalism is not with the younger generation. It is with the older and the middle generations. These are the people who fuel tribalism in this country. Knowing that the working class is mainly the middle aged, it will do us a lot of good to adopt this Motion and ban the use of indigenous languages in our offices, our daily functions and operations. I also urge that in our working relationships, we should all promote the national languages, namely, English and Kiswahili. That will promote nationalism. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have heard Amb. Affey mention Kamukunji Constituency. The reason why we would have ended up with an MP, of course, from the ODM, who is not from the big tribes of this country was because I was the team leader for the ODM and I spoke to the people and told them that we must shun tribalism. The people of Kamukunji were not voting on the basis of tribalism. This is because as a leader, I showed the way; that we should not go the tribal way. That means that if all the leaders can stand up, shun tribalism and tell our people every time we meet them to stop tribalism - believe you me - tribalism will end in this country. Otherwise, if we do not stop tribalism, it will destroy us. I support this Motion and urge my colleagues to do the same. I know some of them are intending to oppose it, but I pray that they change their minds before they stand up because this is a Motion that we should support and not oppose at all. Let us ban the use vernacular languages in our public offices and national institutions. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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