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    "id": 565718,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. It is very sad that today a petition of this nature should be brought to Parliament. With all due respect to my colleague, the hon. Member had no choice but to bring the petition. Kenya is a country that is proud of its religious diversity, which is enshrined in our Constitution. Even within Christianity, we have different denominations. We have our Seventh Day Adventists (SDA) brothers, who pray on Saturdays; there are Muslims, who have a special prayer session on Fridays, and the other main Christian denominations, who pray on Sundays. I did Christian Religious Education (CRE) during my school days. Of course I passed. That is why I went to university and I am eventually here. I went to a school where 99 per cent of the students were Christians. There are Christian students who go to schools where 99 per cent of the students belong to other denominations. Examples are Sheikh Khalifa, Wamy and many other Muslim schools, but still the non-Muslim students worship in the manner prescribed by their religions. This is a matter which has been administratively handled by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. We already have war with the Al Shabaab insurgents, who want to divide our country along religious lines. We would not want civil servants to divide teachers or school principals to deny our children their basic religious rights as enshrined in the Constitution, irrespective of whether a school is run by an Islamic, SDA, Catholic or Presbyterian organisation or any other religious organisation. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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