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    "id": 1087185,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "Kenya and that of Makueni County should be in and outside my office like they do it in the United States of America (USA). We should treat this very important garment that carries the spirit of this nation with a little more respect and insist that it must be carried with decorum. That is why I say you cannot use a flag to violate the law. That is abuse. You cannot put a flag on your car and drive on the wrong side of traffic. That is wrong. It is abuse of a national symbol. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as I support this framework, I hope this will see the light of day. I also hope that my proposal on Kenyans flying flags in their homes during national and selected days will see the light of day because it will create hope. Finally, even the fight against terrorism requires us as Kenyans to be patriotic. Somebody was teaching a patriotic class and they told me that they were trying to teach patriotism. Sen. (Dr.) Zani is a teacher. Explain to me how do you teach patriotism as a lesson? Where do you start and what do you say? That you shall love your country? Why? We must, first of all, teach our children and ourselves to love our country, love and protect our symbols and things that matter to us. In the middle of any crisis, everybody should remember that when you allow or harbour a terrorist in the country, you are harming another Kenyan. That is not called patriotism. When you take money so that a terrorist can get into the country, that is called negatived patriotism. That is how you teach, but you begin with small, little and not big things. Things that people ignore and appear like they do not matter but do. When people watch football out there, you will see their flags on their faces. I watched a match recently and people nearly removed their clothes just to show how proud they are of their country. It is because the only thing that reminds them that they are either for Italy or England, is their flag. That is why this is important. I hope one day, history will record the work of Sen. (Dr.) Zani in trying to improve our work. Some of the work we do here makes me very tired. We work so hard and speak well because you give us a lot of time only for it to end up nowhere. How can some of these laws be implemented? In the middle of hopelessness, I must speak of hope because that is the only way. I support."
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