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    "content": "no State. We need to point fingers at the State with regard to genocide because the State precipitates the situation of genocide either by exclusion or by continued victimization of people who might not be within the arrangement of that tribe. I overheard people telling us that as the opposition we must narrow our rhetoric. They do not realize that the opposition has no other avenue, but to respond through free speech to some of the transgressions. You cannot continue to appoint people on regional basis that beats the spirit and letter of the Constitution and when we rise up to talk about it you tell us that it is hate speech. There is no other way the opposition can audit the Government apart from speaking out against the transgressions. It is high time we proposed certain robust amendments to the NCIC Act of what constitutes hate actions. The deliberate disregard of the Constitution to prejudice other people should be construed as hate action. In fact, I do not believe that many of these people in the current arrangement of Government would be worth holding those positions if we really had the right decision of what ethnicity constitutes. I remember when the debate about hate speech was in high gear, I was a commissioner at the Kenya National Human Rights Commission (KNHCR). At that time, I fought against that legislation. You are a victim of that legislation. I fought against it and told them that this was going to be used to gag speech. True to it, I found myself having to respond to an article I wrote in The Standard newspaper about ethnicization of State which the NCIC at that time, using its wisdom, said that it was fair comment. The people who were my accusers then are the people now charged with hate speech before the courts of law. We have to be careful with regard to the rhetoric used by countries that themselves have doubtful democratic records. We must not only lecture ourselves about infrastructure or free movement of goods. There must also be free movement of values and ideas. That is what we do not have in Africa. You cannot imagine that we can just become organic without being at pain. The Senate Majority Leader talked about how these days Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda tend to agree more and more. I get worried about that access because the temptation to be a Museveni in Kenya can easily crack this country because this is the 21st Century. It is not those days where the Musevenis and the rest took power and could literally arbiter over their country with indiscriminate---"
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