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    "id": 479438,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/479438/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mohamed Diriye",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Diriye Abdullahi Mohamed",
        "slug": "diriye-abdullahi-mohamed"
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I am urging the President on behalf of those regions where we come from, North Eastern to remember us. Up to now we do not have any road. The other day we travelled on that road from here with Members of Parliament and they could not imagine why the Government is not tarmacking it. That is the discrimination we are talking about on every sphere of life. Even the insecurity you normally hear about is part of the discrimination because there are no enough police officers or enough security posts. So, I am urging the Government, please, we have the opportunity now. I am urging the President himself; we have the opportunity to correct all the mistakes that were done over the last 50 years. The Government of Kenya has missed many opportunities to correct that mistake. They have squandered a lot of opportunities. They keep blaming the people from those parts of the country. Right now, we have the opportunity. We have the opportunity to correct the mistakes that were committed over the years by the Government. We are telling the Government that those people from those regions are no less Kenyans than everybody else. We are asking the Government to stop discriminating against our people on the basis of ethnicity. Otherwise, we will petition the House and go to courts. If the Government will continue like this, we will have to resort to other things. The youth may resort to joining"
}