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    "id": 575170,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/575170/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13131,
        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "If you were to eradicate a negative value like tribalism, you must replace it with a positive value. The challenge has been that we have never been able to truly define what a Kenyan is and what our identity is. Because of lack of our identity, people default to the closest identity they have which is the tribe. Where the tribe is one identity, for example, if you look at many areas in North Eastern, they default to the next identity which is a clan. We must define what it means to be a Kenyan. There is something more than just being found within these same borders and that we must get along. We must create that identity. There must be a serious campaign on building that identity and what values we stand for as a country. Unless we do this, we will always be one election away from disintegration as a country. Before 2007, we always used to say that Kenya is an island of peace within a sea of turmoil but, that one election made us question the foundations of our self belief. On that day, we saw neighbours who had lived together for many years, say 20 or 30 years turning on each other. Some said that it is the devil that got into their minds but, it was an exposure of the lack of depth in identity as a country."
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