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"speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
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"content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to associate myself with some of the remarks that have been made in terms of, we, as a country, tackling the issue of negative ethnicity. It has been used, depending on who is involved. For some, it is not bad. For others, it is bad. This went on until we ended up with some communities almost being made to feel guilty for being who they are. Immediately you mention where you come from, you are labelled a certain stereotype. I believe that is the kind of thing we need to get rid of from this country, so that it does not look like ethnicity only applies to some communities and not to others. It is something we need to collectively wipe out and get every Kenyan to enjoy the right of participation in this country without being asked: âWhat is your ethnic background before we can consider whether to give you a job or not?â Once we do that, even some of the issues arising out of some reports we have seen in the media today will not be an issue. We should never be using our money and time to do an analysis to say which community is represented in which Ministry and in what area, because doing so would be encouraging ethnicity."
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