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    "id": 786235,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I begin by making reference to the quotation by Nelson Mandela in May 1994, when he was assuming the presidency of South Africa. Mandela said:- “Out of the experience of an extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud.” With that quotation Nelson Mandela picked Fredrik Willem de Klerk, who was the President from the regime that had presided over apartheid and kept Mandela in jail for 27 years. Nelson Mandela planted a seed in South Africa of togetherness, forgiveness and tolerance that lasted for a long time in South Africa. The gesture we saw last week from His Excellency Raila Amollo Odinga and His Excellency President Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta is something that gives this country an opportunity to open a new page of togetherness. It is a page where our ethnicity should not divide us and we should do away with politics of toxic nature, abuse and looking at each other through our ethnic lenses. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we should all applaud the two leaders and agree that from now henceforth we should aspire to build a nation where future generations will be proud of. Some of us who are serving our first term in this House experienced how our ethnic divide had become wide. When we were participating in choosing our Chairpersons and Vice Chairpersons in our Committees we could see that this country had reached a level that was alarming in terms of our ethnic affiliations. It is my true and sincere hope that what this country went through last week will give us an opportunity to embrace the preamble in our Constitution, 2010. It says in part:- “We the people of Kenya, proud of our ethnic, cultural and religious diversity; and determined to live in peace and unity as one indivisible sovereign nation, adopt, enact and give this Constitution to ourselves and to our future generations.” Mr. Speaker Sir, we will not live the true spirit of this Constitution if we continue embracing politics that puts our ethnicity ahead of everything. I hope from now henceforth, we will see more unity in this House; we will seize the opportunity to relook The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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