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    "id": 675083,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Bishop) R. Mutua",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Mutemi Mutua",
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    "content": "As I conclude, I want to make an appeal to this nation. Time has come for us to look at our traditional structures of governance and begin to recognise them. Some of them are far much superior to those others we are borrowing from elsewhere. Even traditional leadership of the clans can be used to sort a lot of problems. They can address issues of child neglect and street children. We have not recognised them. There is no clan in this country that cannot take care of its children. We need to have a commission that will go round the country and revive some of the useful structures that were intentionally killed by the Colonial Government for the purpose of governing us. Some of the traditions were not bad. They were very important and are still very powerful. They can bring us together and sort out some of the problems we are experiencing in using modern strategies that cannot work at the grassroots. Let us use this opportunity to re- evaluate out traditional leadership structures and see what can work for us. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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