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    "id": 1519573,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1519573/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "worth living. Take big dreams and steps. Learn from hon. Raila. He has held big dreams from which we are benefiting today. There are countries that have internet today but one cannot post things for fear of going to jail or dying. In our nation today, many young people enjoy not just the social platform but any kind of expression on those platforms. It is not to be taken for granted that those rights that you are enjoying to be people who express yourself online are not just rights. They are rights that saw people like Raila Amollo Odinga battered, beaten and taken into detention for you to have those rights. So even as some people try to put him down, that valor, that courage and that tiring spirit must live among young people in the country called Kenya and in the African continent. That said, Mr. Odinga did not just show up on this race as just a candidate who had no contribution made to our country and who just wanted a job. On 27th February, 2024, Raila Amollo Odinga did express himself to the agenda and the vision that he was bringing to this position. I want to agree with what my brother, Sen. Kajwang’ said, that this vision that Raila had is not just a vision for the sake of getting an AU position. It is a vision that we, as leaders, in this country extended to leaders and other countries that believe in the African dream and more so extended to the leader from Djibouti, my brother Ali Youssouf, who has taken this position, must cast their eye upon because the African continent is constantly under threat. The movement of goods, the movement of capital, the movement of labor in the continent to make a working economy is still a daydream that we have never achieved. Let me tell you, the issue of AU is not just about regional politics in the African Continent. It is also about global politics because we are competing with other continents as well. We have China, which is a nation and also as big as a continent with populations of over 1 billion people. We are competing with them. We have got America that we are competing with. Do not think that the advancement of a common market in the African Continent is something pleasing to other people. Therefore, it is a commitment that cannot just be an issue of politics in the continent. It is an issue that the continent must commit to the dream that Raila had of making sure that goods and services can move with robust infrastructure. Raila Odinga held a very strong view on why we must make sure that we silence the guns in the continent and ensure that there is security so that capital, goods and people can move in the continent and work and build a continent. Raila Odinga had the strong view that we need serious connectivity between Djibouti and Senegal, between Cape Town and Cairo, so that movement of people, goods and services can be easy. He held a very strong view that the continent must have a single visa so that moving around the continent can be easy; so that a Kenyan who is born today without opportunities in the country called Kenya, can as well move to Nigeria easily or to Egypt easily and be able to find opportunity for themselves. That somebody in Egypt, who cannot find their talent and opportunities in Egypt, can move to Kenya and find opportunity that works for them. The dream of Raila Amollo Odinga was a continent where you are born does not define whether you die or you live. That dream must live"
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