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    "id": 797262,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Angwenyi",
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        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me a chance to contribute to this important Speech. I have been in Parliament for some time now. I have listened to presidential speeches in this Parliament. Yesterday’s Speech by His Excellency the President was one of the most positive statements ever made in this House. It was positive in the sense that the President sought to unite Kenyans so that my sister there cannot be told that she is not a Kikuyu. We are all Kenyans. I see you as a Kenyan. I do not see you as a Kisii, Kikuyu or Luo. When somebody is appointed to a job, we do not seek to find out his or her ethnicity. We know he is a Kenyan. Is that Kenyan qualified or not? That is the message I got from the President. The other aspect which I got from the President was that he is prepared to fight two things or issues which have crippled this country’s development – ethnicity and corruption. Ethnicity is such that if I am appointed to an important position whereby I should consider the entire country, I tend to only look at my county. People in appointed positions tend to look at The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}