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    "id": 1132875,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "is pulling himself out yet he requires all these people to support him on election day. He requires the police, lawyers and all these people but he is now telling them he is independent. It was put well in the morning that independence does not necessarily mean working alone. It also includes interdependence. At the decision level, nobody will interfere with your decision but, you must work together and carry everyone along. As leaders, I expect we have a platform that can influence a society. We should use it to educate the masses on what qualities to look for in a leader. We have the experience. Sometimes, wolves may adopt sheep clothing to blend in an attack from within and this is at all levels. Many Kenyans, more so the young generation may not be aware of this. Let us be role models to be emulated and let us take any opportunity that we have to remind them that a good leader is futuristic, development oriented and visionary; carrying on exactly where the visual President Uhuru will leave it. It would be unfortunate that without these investments, all these investors lining up to sign up, we end up with a situation where they all have to go to the neighbouring countries because they cannot see the bigger vision of where Kenya is going in the future. We must protect Kenyans from predatory campaigns being conducted by various leaders whose aim is to clinch power at all costs. As much as we will play the role of civic educators and reason with the populists on the need to exercise their right to vote, you must also call those leaders who are out to take advantage of voters; leaders who have no interest in the wellbeing of Wanjiku; and leaders who have no plan on how to revive the economy but hell-bent on need to buy positions and power. We must call them out. That is the best we can do for this country as leaders. Lastly, we have a choice to view a partially filled glass of water as either half empty or half full. The half empty brigade will usually concentrate on what is missing. They will look for errors, timing, processes, its content, what was to be, and conveniently give a blind eye on what has been achieved so far. I heard comments like the President was late, the Speech was too long and that it would have been simplified. Those are the half empty brigade. They do not want to see the richer content; it is like looking for errors in everything. We are only seeing half empty. On the other hand, the optimistic half full brigade will look at the glass as half full, recognise that efforts have been made and with full of hope that more is on the way to make the glass full for everyone. Some will even offer solutions to accelerate the full filling of that glass. I would want to imagine that Members of this House would be part of the purveyors of hope; people who will be telling others yes, we have heard from the President what he has done and as leaders, we undertake and will continue the journey from here so that when President Uhuru Kenyatta retires in August, all that has been done will not die. Again, we have choices to help the Kenyan people think whether they want to work with naysayers who never see anything being done or people who see half being done."
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