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    "id": 535041,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Opiyo",
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        "legal_name": "Jared Odhiambo Opiyo",
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    "content": "However, I stand to support the President‟s Speech, which was delivered here last week. The President‟s act of apologising on behalf of successive governments for atrocities committed on the people of Kenya was a powerful gesture. It needs a person of courage. It needs a lot of strength to do that. When apologising, I feel that the President should have spoken to issues that have beleaguered this country for years; an example is tribalism. Successive regimes in this country have perpetuated the vice - tribalism. There are sections of this country that have been marginalized systematically for a long time by successive regimes. It would have been very important for the President, in that gesture, to have gone ahead and apologised to the Kenyan people for tribalism that has been perpetuated in this country. We are heading to a situation where Kenyans will group themselves according to ethnicity and take up all positions in Government. This is something that the President should have addressed very powerfully. If this Parliament has to be in tandem with the President, we must start debating the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Report that was released sometime back. It must be fully implemented so that all the areas that have been marginalized, and all the people against whom crimes were committed, get restitution."
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