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    "id": 1519466,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wamatinga",
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        "legal_name": "Wahome Wamatinga",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. As I start, I am reminded of today's debate of the call that we have as a leadership of this country. I would want to start by thanking two people. One, Mr. Raila Amollo Odinga. His ability over the years to bend backwards, to put this country forward has been a challenge to many of us. It is known and it is on record. I am one of those who, for many years, have always opposed the leadership of Raila Amollo Odinga. However, having said that, I want to put the record straight. It is not because I have any justifiable reason. It is because I have always been persuaded to think along ethnic and regional blocs. Time has come to realize that this country is greater than any one of us. The second person I want to thank is His Excellency, the President, William Samoei Ruto. It is indeed a great act of citizenship to propose somebody who you have competed with for the presidency because he thinks he is qualified and he is up to the task. As I stand here, I look at the people sitting in the gallery, young people who are looking upon us for leadership to unify this country so that we can leave a united country behind for them. The whole world is becoming a global village. It is not lost to us that the strength and the strategic geographical position of this country will highly benefit if we have regional integration in the Great East African region and indeed, in the whole of Africa. Many a times, as the President, His Excellency President Ruto said, it is time that Africans started taking matters in their own hands and that must start by making a unified monetary unit where we can allow ourselves to trade without having to rely on foreign currencies like the dollar. It is the high time that we look at a stateman, somebody who is able to move this country, this continent forward, somebody who is prepared to sacrifice, and we know this person is embodied in the person of one Raila Amollo Odinga. I want to agree with people that the loss for Raila Amollo Odinga is not a loss to himself. It is a loss to this country and the whole of Africa indeed. If we judge this unfairly, as some of us have drawn to sectarianism and others to tribal cocoons and trying to champion their tribal beliefs without telling the world the truth, there is no one tribe that can survive on their own. Many have touted the phrase ‘ usiguze murima .’ What is most unfortunate is that the ‘ murima,’ in its homogeneity,"
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