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    "id": 1451715,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Eldas, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Adan Keynan",
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        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "today, we are lagging behind. These issues must be addressed collectively. The President alone cannot address them. The citizens must be ready to support the Government. The President must also be ready to listen to the citizens. They must have faith in their leadership, which must remain accountable. As the father of the 13th Parliament, there comes a time when we must all come together, reason and collectively pursue a path that will add us to the list of developed nations. It cannot be achieved through violence or the activities that we have seen in the name of economic sabotage. How do you create employment and yet, the very avenues of creating it are being sabotaged? When you want to occupy Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), which is the communication and transport hub of the region, you want to grind our economic activities to a halt. Where will employment come from? When you discourage business people from creating wealth, where will employment come from? We are negating every positive activity our forefathers left to us. I appeal to our generation that we must reason together. We must listen to each other. We must all ask ourselves what we can add positively to this premium nation. We also appreciate that this is a diverse country. Our diversity must be used to positively project the image of this country. Politicians come and go, but Kenya will remain. Where are those freedom fighters? They are all gone. They left us to take this country to another level. It is our time. We must not allow this country to degenerate into a state of lawlessness when we are awake. I know politics is as divisive as we have seen it. Elections come and go. We had elections and came up with a democratically elected Government. President Ruto did not usurp power. He was elected. The election was disputed and the Supreme Court validated it. He is the duly and democratically elected President of the Republic of Kenya. Whereas you may have issues, we can channel them through our democratically established and accepted process, including the political parties, Constitution and courts. We have other avenues of passing information. I also plead with my colleagues, the political class, who have been yapping around that they have not seen the effects of a civil war. You only need to go outside the country and experience it. Please, remember I cannot be a refugee at this age. I cannot allow my grandchildren to be refugees at this age. As an individual and leader, I will do whatever it takes to make sure that Kenya remains a united and democratic country. This will not be a mean achievement. Hon. Temporary Speaker, what you said today during your contribution touched me emotionally. There comes a time when a person must get out of that tribal yoke, regional thinking and expand his horizon of thinking, and ask what he can add to the country. We are in a very difficult period right now, not only in Kenya, but also globally. Look at what happened in Bangladesh recently and the United States of America (USA) two days ago. There are general global activities that are going on. Even President Joe Biden said that he could not afford to contribute to anything that negates the existence of the USA. As leadership, what are we doing? I would like to recommit and tell my sons and daughters, wherever they are, to listen. Your message is loud and clear. Your agenda is focused. I am sure that we, in the political class, will give you an opportunity. I also appreciate the President for hearing the cries of our children. That is why he declined to assent to the Finance Bill, 2024, dissolved his Cabinet and even accepted to be hosted in the X space. We have a listening President. Can we give him an opportunity to guide this country? Without our support, it will be difficult to govern this country. Therefore, for God's sake and for the sake of this country, I want us - the political class - to come together. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I like what you said today when you contributed. Let us not be guided by our petty day-to-day political partnerships that are driven by regional interest. Let us be driven by what brings this country together and constitutes the premier Republic of Kenya. We The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}