{"id":806182,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/806182/?format=json","text_counter":245,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Kang'ata","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":1826,"legal_name":"Irungu Kang'ata","slug":"irungu-kangata"},"content":"Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. With all due respect, I want to disagree with every person who has given their submission. It is good for us to love tradition. I doubt if there is anyone who loves traditions more than me. However, this is not a practical Petition. In Kikuyu land, there were people who were called Gumba and the Athi, but they were all assimilated by the Kikuyus. The truth is that enacting a law or discussing a Petition here will not help, because historical processes of assimilation are a reality. If you want to protect your culture, you only have two things; you either become so many with a population of close to 1 billion or alternatively become rich. When rich, you can then use your political and economic muscle to fight other people. However, with all due respect and with all those primordial instincts, the truth is that the Suba will continued being assimilated. Madam Temporary Speaker, as a matter of fact many languages, for example, the Kikuyu, we speak today might be extinct in the next 50 years. This is because even the children of my brothers who are Luhyas do not speak Luhya language. Instead, they will be speaking English or Chinese language. By that time, China will be the super power. Let us be practical---"}