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    "id": 1495078,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity and also to welcome you back. I am aware you were on an official parliamentary tour monitoring the U.S. elections. I want to take this opportunity to thank and congratulate the people of the United States of America. Specifically, we want to applaud the election of the 45th and 47th President of the United States of America, Donald Trump and wish him well as he serves. I hope he will give policies that will be of help to Kenya and across the world, specifically, our Haiti mission that we have to assist. We have several agreements that President William Ruto went to the United States to engage. I hope that engagement between the U.S. Government and the Kenyan Government will continue to benefit us. In fact, as His Excellency Donald Trump was being elected to office, there was a hashtag suggesting that the current U.S. envoy, Meg Whitman, should leave the country. Nonetheless, to be fair to her, she has been supportive of the Kenyan Government. She is one of the ambassadors who have marketed Kenya more than any other special envoy or high commissioner to this country. I request Kenyans to give her a break; she is doing a lot. There is a misnomer in this country that when you are an ambassador, you must work with the opposition of the Government. That is not true. Any ambassador to this country must work closely with all Kenyans, both Government and opposition. So, the people who want to start hashtags, Twitter, or X against a U.S. ambassador are being unfair. Therefore, there is a song on the street that says, “ waende wasikievibaya na huko kwao”, I saw women demonstrate. They were disappointed that Kamala Harris could not succeed as President of the U.S. At least, she gave it a trial. We are proud of women. We hope they will be inspired. I always knew Donald Trump would win because I have been to America on several occasions, and I know the ‘ground’, huwa anasikiza ground’. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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