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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, some of us are faced and burdened with cases of hate speech, having spoken on exactly the same things that the President spoke about; the issue of a little girl dying at a risk of four times more just because they were born in Nyanza as opposed to being born in Central. When we speak about that, we are accused of hate speech. We have talked about the issue of opportunity, where people get jobs based on their second names. President Obama just fell short of saying “coming from particular counties.” The Government should withdraw all the hate speech cases against Sen. Muthama, Sen. Orengo, Sen. Ongoro and I, because these are things that we are talking about. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, finally, on the issue of corruption I hope that the Government was listening when President Obama said that we lose 250,000 direct jobs. For every direct job lost there are four indirect jobs that are lost. These include jobs for the house girls, watchmen and “watu wa mkono” who are indirectly employed. This should disturb the Government. It is sad that as President Obama said Kenyans, especially our youth, should stand and say “enough is enough”. He was saying it when right before him we had the high priests of corruption as we know them. How I wish, in the interest of a greater Kenya, all Kenyans, including President Uhuru, would use this opportunity to step up the fight against corruption. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, without taking all the time, I thank you and hope that President Obama’s speech will not be reduced to rhetoric, but a case in point for a consultation on good governance. I beg to support."
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