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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, you do not need much experience to be a tea girl, driver or to do many of these jobs. It beats logic for you to ship a driver miles away to a come and become a driver in another county when we know for a fact that there could be other people who are unemployed and other unskilled force that can serve in these positions. We need to rest the debate in this country and to build national cohesion and unity in this great nation called Kenya. It is, therefore, important that we have equity and fairness in the sharing of natural resources. We should not fail in that. Our unity is not just about hugging and cuddling. I repeat that again. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you know that as a country, we cannot just be cohesive when you tell us to love one another on account of inequities. Lack of national cohesion today is principally based on the fact that many of us feel disfranchised from the national grid. So, it is not sufficient to tell us to love one another as a country. It is important that as a country, we exercise equity in the distribution of resources and that is why the devolution debate is the debate of our time. There was that generation of the independence era that talked about freedom which never was but there is this generation that must talk about devolution and the Constitution. We are the devolution and constitution generation. Therefore, we want to ensure that those inequities that have been experienced over the last 50 years are now bridged. Equity means two things; those who used to have more, now get less so that others can be pushed up and those who had less now get more so that they can catch up with the lost time based on political disfranchisement. That is equity and it is affirmative action and not discrimination. When we speak about it in Kenya, people think we want to disenfranchise anybody. If you have disfranchised people for many years, it is incumbent that people are given that opportunity to catch up. These paradigms and principles are embodied in our Constitution. As a Member of this Committee, I want to say that we listen to the views of Kenyan people who need equity and this is the right forum. I beg to support."
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