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    "id": 770402,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Nyikal",
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        "legal_name": "James Nyikal",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, for this opportunity. We must commend the Committee for bringing this Standing Order on cohesion and equal opportunity. This is the basic problem in this country. I know the joint committee did not do much. Make it simple. What we are dealing with here is the problem of ethnicity or tribalism. If you want, call it “discrimination”. If you look at all the problems that we have in the country, they originate from there. At the time of Independence, our forefathers thought we had only three problems; disease, ignorance and poverty. We have now added tribalism and corruption, and the two are heading each other. At least this will deal with the problem of ethnicity. This is implementing a very important aspect of our Constitution in the Bill of Rights, under Article 27. Parts (c) and (d) have been picked right from the Constitution. Those Members who will have the opportunity to serve in this committee must remember that they have been given the most important committee of this House in terms of cohesion. It can create a nation. As of now, this country is only a state. It is created by instruments of the state, the Constitution, laws, and the Executive, but we do not have cohesion that creates a state in the minds of the people. This Committee, if it does its work, can lead us in that direction. I support."
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