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    "id": 1004978,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1004978/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kathiani, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Robert Mbui",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Mbui",
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    "content": " Thank you very much Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I want to say that I am a proud Kenyan now that my country was elected by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to occupy a seat to represent Africa in the UN Security Council. This is not a small achievement. This is something worth being proud about. I want to congratulate His Excellency the President for making us proud. We know that we got 129 votes against Djibouti’s 62. So, I am proud enough to even wish that this kind of position could be a permanent seat. We must, as a nation, be thinking broadly and even bigger. But I wish to say that after Kenya won this position, there are a lot of interesting characters in this nation. Those are the jokers on social media who have gone ahead to castigate this great achievement of this nation and yet, they are Kenyans and we know them. They are Kenyans who have compared our population with Djibouti, compared our GDP with Djibouti and implied that beating them into getting that seat was not even worth talking about. What I have realized is that there seems to be a problem with patriotism in this country. What has happened to our patriotism? What happened to the respect for our motherland? What happened to the respect for our President? Why do people disrespect the leaders that they put into office? One of the main things that was coming up when we were dealing with the issue of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) is ethos. I think it is important that we deal with issues to do with patriotism, issues that make Kenyans proud to be Kenyan. That is so that whenever Kenya achieves anything, everyone stands behind that achievement and takes pride in it. Schools are in recess now. How I wish we came up with some kind of an educational policy where we can make Kenyans start believing in themselves. That is why Kenyans want to buy imported goods even now. It is because they do not even believe in their goods. I just want to say that I am proud of what we have achieved. I wish all Kenyans could believe in their country. We cannot build Kenya alone. We must have everyone, the 47 million Kenyans, behind us."
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