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    "id": 1433880,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1433880/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "It is God who placed us in our various destinations that we call home. Nothing makes Hon. Farah or Hon. Lesuuda not to come and live in Kikuyu. Today, I represent a constituency outside Nairobi. Because of its proximity to Nairobi, it hosts Kenyans of all walks of life from Garissa, Mandera, Tiaty, western Kenya and the far north in Marsabit County. These are Kenyans who have every right to live in Kikuyu and Kiambu. I was telling somebody yesterday that in another 10 or 20 years from today, I may not be the Member of Parliament for Kikuyu Constituency. I do not know who the Member of Parliament for Kikuyu will be. However, any child who would have grown up in Kikuyu and knows Kikuyu, notwithstanding where they come from, could be elected as a Member of Parliament for Kikuyu Constituency. I will not be surprised if at one time the governor position in Kiambu County goes to somebody who does not originally hail from Kiambu. That is the beauty of democracy and that is the kind of a country we want to build. Many people believed that there are communities that can never vote for a presidential candidate from the Rift Valley. However, today we have an elected President who was elected on the basis of what he espoused and stood for, not on the basis of where he came from. That is the reason why, elsewhere we have taken time to painfully stand for what is right and not what is politically expedient or what one thinks is politically popular in their village. We stand for what is right and good for Kenya. I said yesterday that Kenya is now playing at a global stage. We are globalising our country. We cannot afford to dwell on village matters now. We cannot “villagise”, if there is such a word. If there is globalising, please let us not “villagise” our country. We have a beautiful country that we cannot afford to “villagise”; a beautiful country that our President has placed on the global stage. It is globalisation that we should be focusing on, not “villagising” a beautiful country like Kenya."
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