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    "id": 104589,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Nyamweya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Manson Oyongo Nyamweya",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I would like to pose a question before I proceed. What is the objective or the purpose of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs? If we do not understand ourselves, how can we explain ourselves to anyone else? Kenya is not a small country. We are a country of 40 million people. Our Budget, and I am glad that the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance is here, is financed by the Kenyan taxpayers. In fact, 60 per cent of the GDP of the whole of East Africa is Kenyan. We command the Indian Ocean and all other areas. We have universal and compulsory primary education. To access Africa, you have to go through Kenya. In the banking sector, all the requirements you need elsewhere in the world are found in Kenya. We have wonderful and hardworking people in Kenya. If you go out of Kenya, will that be the image that you will get? Most people out there do not know that we are a peaceful country. They do not know the things I have said that, in fact, our Budget is our own. It is thought that we are supported by the international community. They do not know the perils and dangers that we face from the pirates in the Indian Oceans. Our friends who many of you like calling “Development Partners” do not help us man the Indian Ocean. Our partners in East Africa will not help us deal with the Indian Ocean. With regard to our borders, we have a very volatile neighbour in Somalia. We have a difficult neighbour in Ethiopia. Sudan is facing problems. We also have problems with Uganda. If you were to ask what our foreign policy is, really, what answer would you get? Would you be able to get any of our ambassadors to tell us any of these things without being defensive? Are our ambassadors proud to be Kenyans? Do they put Kenya first or it is about what other people want to hear? I believe that we should be able to start saying: “I am who I am”, before you can start dealing with the others. What does Kenya have to offer? All the services that the rest of the world needs. Why do we have the United Nations (UN) here? Why do we have the headquarters of almost every international organisation here, in Kenya? It means Kenya has the ability to service the world, but is that what we are doing out there? Is that what we are projecting? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have Kenyans all over the world, including the United States of America (USA), India, the United Kingdom, Europe and Australia. In those countries, we have very hardworking people, who have done very well. What sort of effort have we put in place in helping them to secure international jobs, say, in the UN, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and so on? You will find that most Kenyans who have jobs in such organisations have acquired them through their own effort, without any help from our own"
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