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    "id": 122120,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kabando wa Kabando",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 31,
        "legal_name": "Kabando wa Kabando",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to register that, last year, many of these Members, and the country knows that I was a recipient of a communication from the American Ambassador supposedly to explain my role in promoting peace and ethnic reconciliation in the Republic of Kenya. I never sought support from any Member of Parliament from my region, from my ethnic community, Parliamentary Group nor did I seek any information or assistance from Ministers or from the President. I dealt with it personally, as a son of a woman! Through that, I travelled to America and gave an address during an convocation as the Chief Guest at the State University of New York, because I was sure of whom I am. The business of rushing to your ethnic group, making declarations and saying that your ethnic group is being finished, your religious community is being affected, or your political party is being affected is all nonsense, pettiness and triviality that cannot hold. Let there be a first step of arresting and trying perpetrators upon comprehensive investigations which will be done by Mr. Ocampo. However, we have heard people in Government and in Parliament talking from the crescendo of their village hills,saying that they will not listen to President Obama, they will not listen to Dr. Anan and that they will not listen to Mr. Ocampo. That is a shame! Dr. Anan is an eminent African. We are the ones who called him here. Kenyans know that he brought a resolution to our dispute. President Obama is a celebrity, internationally, and more so in Kenya, being the only country that set aside a public holiday upon his election. Our CEO, the President and our coordinator and supervisor for Government, the Prime Minister, wrote a letter within 24 hours to congratulate him when"
}