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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. Ndeti",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports",
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        "legal_name": "Wavinya Ndeti",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to support the Motion. In supporting the Motion, I want us to look at the levels of communication in our mother tongue. I support the Motion by looking at Government institutions and institutions of learning. If you look at the Motion and relate it to the new Constitution, you will see that if Articles 53 and 55 are implemented properly, then some of the problems we have on tribal issues will end. Education is compulsory for everyone. Our schools teach English and Kiswahili. Our children are taught to speak in English and Kiswahili, but not in their mother tongues. If we look at what happened after the last General Elections, you will see that everybody went back to their cocoons. Even in Government offices, people used to speak their languages in support of their own persons. That brought out the tribalism in the Kenyan people. As Dr. Khalwale has said, if we fight--- I am looking at it from two points of view. We can fight tribalism and decide to use one language as the official language of communication for the Kenyan people. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have seen it in many offices. Officers are being transferred to one area. I am just giving an example. Number one, the head is a Mkamba. So, I say number one is a Mkamba. The Deputy is a Mkamba. Number three is a Mkamba. When you go to that office, they are all speaking Kikamba. If there are people who are not from that ethnic group and they hear them speaking the same language, that causes a lot of discomfort. The Government must be careful when it is sending officers to work in other areas. We have to mix them. It is becoming a very big problem in Kenya. It is also, in a way, causing security threats. I have seen people in the constituencies and districts regrouping according to their own tribes."
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