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    "id": 612200,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/612200/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "This Sessional Paper is very good. It talks of recognition of primary responsibility to observe, respect, protect, promote and fulfil the rights and fundamental freedoms in the Constitution of Kenya. We have so many laws in this country that sometimes one wonders if really what Kenya needs are these many laws and sessional papers that we are discussing. There are issues of inequality and inhumanity in our society today. I was so touched when I attended the Pope’s mass in Kawangware. He spoke of a new breed of people. We have them here in Kenya. They think that the god of money is more important than human beings. We have heartless people. We see heartless conduct by a minority in our midst, who seem to think that the squalor in which the majority live does not matter. Therefore, even as we debate this Sessional Paper and many others to come after it, let us go back to basic definitions of what is good and bad. With those two, we will not even need to be talking about laws. Look at where we started from, the highly acclaimed Sessional Paper No.10 of 1965. It divided Kenya into those who have and those who do not have. Kenya was divided into the so called high potential areas and the low potential areas. It was put on paper that the Government should spend its money in the high potential areas. For example, how do you explain that my good friend, Hon. Chachu Ganya, represents the largest constituency in this country which is the size of Nyanza Province, Central Province, Western Province and four times the size of Nairobi Province put together, yet to date his constituency does not even have a single meter of tarmac, 50 years after independence? What are you telling the people who live in North Horr? Are you merely not telling them that they may want to call themselves Kenyans, but there are Kenyans who are more Kenyans than them? Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we will make these laws, but we must accept that the problem in our country is that the war that we are fighting today is between good and bad. Let us"
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