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    "id": 975874,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/975874/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) James Nyikal",
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    "content": "In this country, if you stood in the street and said, “These Luos are very stupid people”, you will be attacked immediately but if you stood in the street and said these Kenyans are this and that, people will say you are a mad person because deep inside us, emotionally, we do not belong to that entity called Kenya. We belong to the entities of the smaller groups. It is only issues like equity that can bring that into our minds so that when Kenya is attacked, either through corruption or even militarily, we feel we are attacked. When people steal large amounts of money from a country and it is questioned, they are told, “Does that money belong to the person who is complaining?”. We do not have a sense of belonging to the country. That is extremely important. Moreover, equality will also ensure competitiveness and if there is competitiveness, then there is efficiency so that the best people all over are picked to do the jobs we require. At the moment, and Members have talked about it, we do not have that equity in employment whichever way you look at it, maybe not in the Cabinet but in parastatals and even the private sector. The private sector may be worse because people have no obligation to employ anybody but perhaps just their next of kin. Maybe the forces of production can force them to get people who are well qualified."
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