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    "id": 1259290,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1259290/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 192,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Oburu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 194,
        "legal_name": "Oburu Ngona Odinga",
        "slug": "oburu-odinga"
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    "content": "At Independence, our leaders like Hon. Kwame Nkrumah, Hon. Sekou Toure, Hon. Julius Nyerere, Haile Selassie, Jomo Kenyatta and all other leaders who were there then appreciated the importance of African unity. They thought that it was important for Africa to become one for Africa to be a power like the USA. However, over the years, sovereignty has taken over our nations and they appear to be more interested to defend their sovereignty. When we are separate, we are very weak and powerful countries can take each one of us and slaughter us separately without caring so much. Mr. Speaker, Sir, sometimes we think that some people care about our interest but their interest is to exploit our very rich continent ad our resources; take those resources and re-process them in their countries; create employment in their countries and continue to impoverish our countries. Let Africans not think that there is anybody who will develop them. There is no one who is interested in helping them to develop their country. People come in for their own interests, to exploit our resources, take them to their countries, create employment for their people and develop their countries. However, when they come here, they sweet- talk us and our leaders and make them believe that they are loved. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I can tell you that those people have no love for us. They are interested in our resources and they will continue to exploit us until we realize that it is our unity as the people of Africa which will help us to be powerful. Africa is richer than the USA and those European countries. It is only unity which will make us specialize so that we do not compete against each other but complement each other by trading together, developing our infrastructure to connect our continent so that we realize that it is important to unite economically. We will then develop and become a very powerful continent in the world. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I hope that spirit of unity will come back to our---"
}