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    "id": 41572,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/41572/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Maj. Sugow",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Public Service",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Ahmed Sugow",
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    "content": "Therefore, I urge hon. Members to look for ways and means of coming up with issues to deal with tribalism in public offices. I know it is a problem but the Constitution has addressed the issue of ethnicity and discrimination in employment in the public sector. What we need is to implement the Constitution. The Constitution has catered for fairness in public service employment. When I heard the Mover and the Seconder, their concern was the issue of employment in public offices where there is serious discrimination. Mr. Affey indicated that 80 percent of the Civil Service positions are held by six communities out of the 47 communities in this country. We cannot address that problem by banning languages. Therefore, provisions are there in the Constitution now to address that problem. What we need is to enforce and to utilize legislation that will be coming to this House with regard to Public Service employment so that we put the right statutes in place to guard against discrimination and to guard against officers favouring people from their ethnic communities."
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