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    "id": 1161771,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1161771/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "There is going to be art, photography on display every year. In five years, we are going to make the Nairobi Festival a global event that is enhancing culture. This Motion on top of what Sen. Kasanga wants, I want to say what we can do practically. As we do that, the arts are an economic frontier. We can get a lot of proper art work done on some of these roads and bridges that are being done. By this, I do not mean the funny graffiti that might be disastrous but proper art that shows who we are as Nairobians and as a city. Unless we do the software in the heart and the soul, that is the vibe of this place--- The hardware you can do the roads, trains, hospitals but there is no soul. That is why when you ask some people where they come from, they say: I am from Isiolo but I live in Nairobi; I am from Nyandarua but I live in Nairobi. Some of us do not have any other home; we are from here and we must make sure that that culture comes out. Culture is not static. Culture is dynamic. Let us appreciate what has been there before but let us also bring out who we have become; a product of the music and the different communities. I remember even at my wedding; I do not think there was any one from my community on my line up because I have not grown up with them. My best friends are from all communities. I have a friend we grew up with called Mutai. I only came to know his tribe three years ago because it has never mattered to me. That is the urban aspect. I know people have different experiences from the rural side but that is what Nairobi is. For us it does not matter your second name or where you are from. What matters is the content of your character and the person you are. Let us make Nairobi the place of opportunities by enhancing this culture and that vibe. Part of our culture as Nairobi and what we are known for, I gave a speech in 2015 at the Institute of the Future, in San Francisco in what we call the Silicon Valley. These people asked me: How is it that we are seeing a lot of innovations coming from Nairobi? I told them it is because we are Silicon Savannah. The world has moved and it is now a global village driven by information powered by knowledge such that the same tools a young person in San Francisco has for coding or developing software, are the same exact tools that a young person in Nairobi has but the needs are different. While the Americans"
}