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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lati",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jonathan Lelelit Lati",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, someone said here, rightly, that our Constitution is one of the most progressive Constitutions in the world. That is right, but what purpose does a progressive Constitution serve if it does not apply uniformly and equally across our land? What purpose do papers have if human rights are not anything to mention in some parts of our country, particularly where I come from? This article talks about the right to human life. Where I come from, people kill each other and walk scot free. What is the purpose of having an article on the right to life when people are killed and nothing is done? Nobody is taken to court. We have been telling the Government that we need to have home guards to help the Government to safeguard human life, but nothing has been done so far. The Constitution of the United States of America provides for a well-regulated militia that is necessary for a free State. People do not access justice when we have one court in the whole of Samburu County, 21,000 square kilometers. How can you walk over 21,000 square kilometres to get a court to serve you justice? What purpose does the Bill of Rights have on economic rights when 70 per cent of our development budget is on Nairobi, Central Kenya and all these other parts along the railway line that was constructed in 1900? What purpose does it serve to have an economic right when less than 1 per cent economic development goes to those areas? We talk of clean water. What purpose does the right to clean water serve when nobody in those areas has access to clean water? Where are human rights in the human-wildlife conflict? We just had a Bill in this House which provided that if you kill an elephant, you pay Kshs20 million but when an elephant kills a human being, he is paid Kshs3 million. This tells you who is more valuable in this country. For us from northern Kenya who have no chance of ever having a president ruling this country, we have nothing. There is a positive correlation between those communities that can produce presidents and those who cannot produce presidents. For us who are the trailers in this country, who will never produce somebody like a president, we will remain the most inhumanly treated people in this world. There is nothing human rights here for us. I want it to go on record that human rights should be specific that it is human rights for the people of Kenya, who live among the communities that can produce presidents."
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