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    "id": 1005047,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Baringo CWR, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Gladwell Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Gladwell Jesire Cheruiyot",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to add my voice to those of my colleagues. I take this opportunity to thank the Almighty God for giving Kenya this opportunity through the President and other players to make Kenya a member of the United Nations Security Council. Many people are wondering why some of the countries we believed would support us did not. That should not be something that we keep deliberating on. We need to move on and thank God because we have been given the opportunity. The key mandate of the United Nations Security Council is to maintain international peace and security. It entails the social security and environmental security, among others. We know very well that the other mandate of UNSC is to develop friendly relationships among nations. So, we need to take this opportunity to create that friendly relationship among our siblings, especially in the EAC, where we are not working well together. We need to find out what is this that is not making us move together. We have the AU which is so silent nowadays since we had the late President Daniel arap Moi as Chairman. It is one of the bodies that would have assisted us in moving together as a Continent. Globalization has been stopped by the COVID-19 pandemic. But globalization is so fluid because whenever there is a crisis, our people in other countries suffer, particularly those of African descent, because of racism. The UNSC should attend to that matter and rescue our people from racism. If we are not in that Security Council as Africans, we cannot raise the issues about our people when the time of need such as this arises. Even after attaining this position, we have some Kenyans who seem not to celebrate. They write wanting content on social media. We want to cultivate patriotism. We should look back and reflect: Where did we lose patriotism in this country to the extent that such gain is not celebrated by all? When the country gains, it is the motherland that has gained and we need to celebrate together. Like my brother said, we should not only celebrate when people win in athletics. We need to celebrate anything else that is positive for this country."
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