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    "id": 1004982,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1004982/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Lari, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jonah Mwangi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13405,
        "legal_name": "Jonah Mburu Mwangi",
        "slug": "jonah-mburu-mwangi"
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    "content": ", what does it mean to be in the UN Security Council? I was telling her this is a great honour to our country. We have been elevated above so many countries in this world. We have become top of mind of many nations. We will benefit in tourism. We will benefit in decision-making with regard to security. I am not standing here today to only congratulate Kenya and the team that saw this through. I am standing here because I am very concerned about our competitors and the nations that did not vote for us. We are having our friends, maybe our neighbours; people we compete with without knowing that we are a big brother to other nations and we have nations we think are our brothers and did not vote for us. We had 69 votes which went to another country - a smaller country. Maybe, we even have members of the big boys, the five nations who are permanent members, who did not vote for us. It is high time that Kenya, as a nation, also evaluated its relationship with the nations that did not vote for us in times of need. If we work with a nation, we give you our right hand and you come to play in our nation. We also want the same respect from you as a nation. That is so that we do not always compete. The AU had given Kenya support, and you could still see many other African countries vote for another country that had not been supported by the AU. This is a big question, and I wish the team that was conducting this can do their due diligence. They should know who did not vote for us because we also need to know our relationship with the other nations. Other nations will come to Kenya to look for business. They will come to Kenya through the many multi-nationals to look for opportunities. But when it comes to the need for Kenya to outshine, when it comes to the need for Kenya to shine out there, those nations are not with Kenya. Show me your friends and I will show you where you are going. So, we should have friends who are with us all through. Kudos to the country. Kudos to our President, Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta. Kudos to the team that conducted this formidable thing to win the UN Security Council seat."
}