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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. Just before we get to the next Order, I rise on a point of order to raise a matter of grave national importance. It has been reported in the last couple of days that there is a Chinese restaurant in the Kilimani area of this capital city that does not admit black Kenyans after 5 p.m. The said restaurant, we are told, only allows two politicians for whatever reason. Having lived with racist people in the past, I find it hard to believe that our Government can allow racist Chinese to live in the heart of our city centre in a way that hurts and limits the rights of our citizens. I know that to many it may sound trivial. However, our Constitution does not allow anybody to limit people’s freedom of association and freedom of access to any of such facilities. I am in the belief that this House has a duty to deal with this issue now that it has come to the fore in a much wider sense. We have a scenario where there are many places in Karen where black people and Kenyans in general are not allowed access into normal public restaurants. It even goes beyond that because these people run these restaurants but they are foreigners. The Government has no access to their premises. Further to that, our Government agencies cannot access many places. I am told there is a place in South C where foreigners live and there is a wall. The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) cannot access them to know what they are doing and even the police department cannot access those walls to know what they are doing. This House, through the relevant committees, need to deal with this matter. I abhor the thought that some Chinese can live in this country and tell Kenyans we are inferior to them because we are not. I want us to condemn this in every strongest terms possible. I want to request you to order the relevant Committee to visit this restaurant with the police so that we as Kenyans can set an example. We cannot have limits to our rights by people who have no rights in their own country. They cannot come here and treat us the way they are treated in their own country. I thank you, hon. Speaker."
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