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    "id": 1161759,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1161759/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Nairobi without that. Now with the Express Way, they will never understand that this did not exit. Looking at how Thika and Langata roads are today, can you try and remember how Thika Road used to be? Development obscures memories of what we used to have. That is why I remember during the last time we were commemorating the death of the founding father, Mzee Kenyatta, I told President Uhuru Kenyatta that there are many people who did not see Mzee Kenyatta, including myself, but today I am a leader. There are many people who were not alive when Mzee Jomo Kenyatta was around. This mausoleum must be expanded into a presidential museum where young people can come and learn our history. We should know that there is a generation that does not remember. I am glad with what the President has done in Uhuru Garden. There shall be a museum there where we can go through and learn how our culture was like and our journey. It is very poetic because it is at the place where our first flag was flown as the Union Jerk was brought down. We must remember that and that is why I am grateful. There are many beautiful things from our different communities. I love travelling and sometimes I go to Isiolo. Sen. Dullo knows I have relatives there as well who vote for her all the time. When I go there, I get stories of what used to happen. My eldest sister is called Njeri and she is married to a man called Galgalo Malicha. Galgalo tells me the stories of Marsabit and Isiolo and how they initially felt to be in a different place and the stories of the people who were there. As a people, we do not get these things. There is no way you will create cohesion in this country without culture. Our Constitution talks about the beauty of our diversity, but how do we express it? We have lacked a way of bringing out the beauty of our diversity because we have not focussed on what a Kenyan identity is. We have tribalism, where people now go to their localised cultural identity as a protection. Because of that, we build fences and not bridges between communities. When you do that, then you do not have cultural identity in the positive manner. I remember President Moi saying that vernacular stations are going to lead Kenya down the wrong way. People thought he was saying the wrong thing. If you look at the Post-Election Violence (PEV) in 2007, it was fuelled by the way we have used our cultural identity. It is like fire. Fire can be used to cook and warm. It is also used in industries. However, fire can also be used to destroy and burn. How we use our culture is extremely important in building bridges for us to know each other. I am fortunate that I am speaking as the Senator for Nairobi City County. Nairobi is the Capital City of this country and a place where we all call home. Nairobi is a place where I have voters and residents from all the 43 communities of this country plus the international community. If you want to talk about fast tracking cultural developments in counties, ask yourself, how do we do that in a cosmopolitan and international global capital like Nairobi? I have a lot of ideas of how we can do it. Once we do it right here, it will lead to a stronger and cohesive country."
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