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    "id": 1356501,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Okenyuri",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity. I support the Motion that has been brought by the joint report. Kenya is a very strategic and stabilizing factor as a State generally in our global politics. Kenya hosts one of the UN headquarters among the very few in Africa. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the country we are talking about is smaller than Sen. Wambua’s county. I acknowledge the intensity of the issues in Haiti. When I read history, one of the most experienced military men, Mr. Napoleon Bonarpate, conquered most areas in Europe. However, when he went to Haiti, many of his soldiers died. Later on, he signed a peace agreement. It is a great honour for our country to lead such peace initiatives in a country where most of its citizens share our African descent. In the spirit of Pan-Africanism, Kenya has been doing well for the few months our President has been in office. He has positively put our country in the international arena. When this news came, most of the world media was mentioning us. It is one of our international obligations as a country to commit to peacekeeping initiatives. This is not happening for the first time. In 2003, our country sent our troops to Sierra Leone and Liberia under the stewardship of General Daniel Opande. I do not understand why this should be causing alarm to our colleagues on the other side of the divide. This is not a new thing in this country. Finally, in Haiti, we have a humanitarian crisis. We do not want to watch genocide to happen and lose young children and women who are most affected when war happens. I hope for the first time we will defeat the gangs. This is a country that has killed, not one, but five sitting presidents. I will be looking forward to seeing what the joint---"
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