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    "id": 1519468,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wamatinga",
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        "legal_name": "Wahome Wamatinga",
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    "content": "cannot consume the product that they produce; the coffee, milk and tea. Our potential lies in the regional integration, not only the muima region, but the whole of Kenya, but even extending this to beyond Africa. This is why I am standing here as a proud Kenyan to say that, yes, Kenyans have realized that we have a potential as a country when we integrate everybody into the leadership of this nation. Unfortunately, few people for their own selfish reasons, chose to celebrate the failure of one Raila Amollo Odinga because they believe that their political future lies in Baba joining hands with them. I want to tell them, woe unto them we have woken up, and we are no longer going to do tribal politics to benefit one person. Show me your friends, I will tell you who you are. I have heard some people, my colleagues, without wanting to discuss them or name them, saying that they have been removed from the chairmanship of committees. I would want to challenge them. Tell your community, as you were the chairman, what did you do for your community? It is high time that we rise and be counted like Kenyans who look at the issues of this country not as a tribal approach, but rather a holistic approach that takes care of political and moral obligation that we have to this young generation. I have decided to face the reality as it is. Somebody has said, the survival of the murima depends on one person. I want to correct that assertion. The survival of murima depends on our ability to integrate with every person in this country, regardless of where they are born. That is a true position and that is what we must tell everybody. This is the right way that we now move forward, unified, towards regional and world integration in the whole of Africa. I was in Angola the other day. I realized that the potential that we have to do business in that country is huge. It cannot be and it is not acceptable that at this time when everybody is moving towards making regional blocs, towards moving people together like the European Union (EU), like the United States (USA) somebody is telling us, ‘usiguse murima .’ That is not only outdated, it is retrogressive and it must be condemned in the highest and the hardest political terms possible. Tomorrow belongs to a future generation, and we have a political and moral obligation to ensure that we bring Kenya together, because Kenya cannot stand divided into tribal cocoons. I also want to thank those who stood with Raila Amollo Odinga; not because he is a Luo or Kenyan, but because he is a Statesman who has the political experience and exposure to see things from a broader perspective. It might please my people to say I oppose Raila, but then I will have a political responsibility and history will judge me so harshly that I did not make the right decision. As has been said here before, a win for any Kenyan is a win for every Kenyan. We must now rise beyond petty tribal politics and say the problems that we face in this country are not tribal. They are problems that we can only solve as a unified country. As I wind up to give my colleagues an opportunity, I would want to take this opportunity to apologise to the Maa Community. I heard my governor make very retrogressive comments about them not wearing surualis . I heard him say it is not what you do, it is who you follow."
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