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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute my thoughts concerning this issue. I want to state clearly that my thinking is that no amount of money should even be put in this kind of petition because there is really no valid reason for any investigation to be done. These are issues of linguistics, which is the scientific study of language. If in a given community a word differs in terms of semantics with another community it does not mean that we should investigate and make a change. The word ‘harambee’ should remain as it is because it has an origin. There is a reason for the origin of the word harambee. It could be the word that has pulled Kenyans together. I am not from the Luo Community, but if I can give an example from them, the word “lot” has a meaning which is different from the same word in English language. Various dialects from Luhya Community attach different meaning to a word murere . For example, to some, it means greens while others, it would mean bringing him or her. Therefore, this kind of debate should not go very far. The Hindus should accept that issues of semantics in different languages gives us different meaning and they should accept our use of harambee in Kenyan version. Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you very much for allowing me to contribute to this debate."
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