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    "id": 1519601,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "transfer system to assist the less fortunate people in rural areas to also get banking services. This is not something that is found across the continent of Africa. We have 55 countries. If Raila Amolo Odinga had been allowed to become the Chairperson of the African Union Commission to be able to advise the 55 Presidents and give his wisdom on all the different organs of the African Union, so that we would achieve the African Union goal of 2063 - we have good hospitals, good road networks, and where we trade, this continent would have had a very different perspective on good leadership. That never happened. In fact, if you compare the two candidates, I dare say, even in terms of understanding the role that the Chairperson of the African Union Commission plays, Raila Amolo Odinga was way much above the gentleman who eventually won. When the gentleman who was declared the winner comes and says that we went with money but they only came with God, it shows a complete different understanding of what that role is about. I expected Mahmoud to say that we are a continent and his role is to act as a key advisor of all the 55 presidents. Many people did not understand the role that Raila Amolo Odinga was going to play as the Chairperson of the AUC. The AUC was established in 2001 and commissioned in 2002 as an organ to develop policies to support AU Heads of States. You can equate it to the Council of Governors (CoG), where you have the CoG Secretariat. The CoG advises the 47 governors that we have in this country. People took it differently. That demonstrates how powerful Raila Amolo Odinga is in this continent. When you sit with hon. Raila Amolo Odinga, he will tell you that the vision he has for Africa is to drench the Nile so that we can have transport directly from Egypt coming down to East Africa. I hope the new Chairperson of the AUC will borrow that from Raila Amolo Odinga. I love what Raila Amolo Odinga said; that he is still available to offer his services to the African Continent if any other opportunity arises. That shows maturity when it comes to leading Africa. We are a continent that is divided. Unless we all sit down together and re-evaluate the 2063 goals of the AU, by 2063, you will still find African countries where people still beg in the streets. I am tired of seeing people beg. I am tired of going to our counties and finding that we have got no medicine, just because of the algorithm that is developed by international communities including India, United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US) when it comes to selling their drugs to this country. They know that we cannot even make our own drugs to help our people get better but we have to depend on this algorithm. Even if Raila Amolo Odinga did not become the Chairperson of the AUC, it is time for us to sit down and ask him to demystify his vision, so that even here in Kenya, we can develop our foreign policy in a way that assists us to develop this nation. When you sit with certain Cabinet Secretaries, they will tell you that the amount of wealth that we have in this country is enough to allow us to pay all our debts and lend money to other countries. These are issues we need to be discussing now. If we invest heavily in the mining sector, we can develop our economy. When I sit here, the text"
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