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    "id": 726870,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Nyikal",
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        "legal_name": "James Nyikal",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, if you look at the issue of ethnicity, it is such a serious problem that if as a nation we cannot address it, then we can never talk about national values. Together with corruption, it stands at the top. We have heard in many reports that if you look at the indices even for development, there is so much difference that is clearly put to tribalism even in appointments and distribution of development. The biggest problem we have with this comes to our politics. If you look at our politics, if you look at our party orientation, if you look at our coalitions, the truth is that we are a deeply divided nation, we are very tribal. It may be difficult to blame the President as a person but the President embodies the whole philosophy of a nation. Therefore, in his Report that is something we must point out. Much has been done but I do not think a lot has been achieved in that line. We can say that we have created a state. A state of course is created by physical boundaries, geographical boundaries, the instruments of power, the Constitution and all those articles of state but we have not created a nation. It is my wish that one day we shall be able to create a nation where all of us feel equally for this country called Kenya. I dare say that if in this country you stood in the middle of the street and started screaming “Kenya is a useless country, Kenya is a very corrupt country”, most people would probably pass by and think you are mad. But I know that if you were to stand in the middle of the street and say “Luos are very corrupt, Luos are thieves,” you will definitely be attacked. What does it say? We internally belong to these groups and not to a nation. It is something that we need to struggle to bring out, that we have a nation that we feel strongly about, that we are ready to fight for instead of being ready to fight and die for our ethnic groups. Another of the values that we put is the issue of devolution. I think this is the greatest achievement this country has had when we put the Constitution 2010 in place. Apart from Chapter Four which is the Bill of Rights, devolution is the most important thing after that. Some achievement has been made. It would not be right to say that devolution has not brought changes, The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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