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    "id": 88742,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/88742/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Eng. Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the people of Kenya have passed this Constitution. But in my view, we will be deluding ourselves to think that hatchets of yester-year; the very ones that have pushed back the promise of Kenya are going to offer themselves for quick and easy burial. I say this because the essence of this Constitution is to make us have a clean break with our dark past. Those of us who went for the promulgation ceremony at Uhuru Park, what did we see? We saw the very same people who have been responsible for Goldenberg and Anglo Leasing scandals dancing their way into Uhuru Park under VIP protection at a time even when some Members of Parliament were being asked to identify themselves. The question then must be asked; does this generation have what it takes to really implement this Constitution in the spirit and letter that Kenyans intended? I have my doubts. This Constitution must help us get a clean break from our dark past and if it does not do that, then we are failing. Finally, like I said before, I believe and love this country deeply. The only way out for this country is our unity as a people. We must say no and very emphatically so to the cancer of tribalism. We have written the Constitution but like I have always said, no law in this world can fight negative ethnicity. As the people of Kenya, we must find it in our mind and hearts to say no to ethnicity. We shall have"
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