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    "id": 87561,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
    "speaker_title": "The Prime Minister",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Raila Amolo Odinga",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, those are quite a handful of clarifications. First, Mr. Mungatana raised a very pertinent issue of ethnic and regional balancing. I am on record as saying that the Kenya that the founding fathers of this nation envisioned will not emerge until we kill this animal called ethnicity. Before we deal with ethnicity, nepotism and so on, we will not begin to act as Kenyans. I have been giving the example of our neighbours down south; Tanzanians, by having visionary leadership they were able to break the ethnic boundaries and unite the people around a common ideology. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Kenyans still live in compartments. There is a compartment mentality that a name alone tells you how you should relate to a particular person. It is important that this is destroyed under this new Constitution. I want to confirm to the hon. Member that we have began the process of trying to do balancing by beginning to do auditing. That programme was started three months ago. All Ministries and Permanent Secretaries are required to do an audit and ensure that we begin the balancing act. We have a status quo which we cannot just discard overnight. We must have a time table and programme on how we are going to deal with it, medium term and long term. We do that by first accepting that it is a problem and we need to deal with it. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to assure the hon. Member that the process has already started. We have given firm instructions on how to deal with new recruitments in all Government Ministries and departments."
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