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    "id": 1519832,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Mohamed",
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    "content": "We will also have our day to laugh and celebrate. It is not very far. It is coming. You can take that to the bank. I will remind you on the day we will celebrate, that you also celebrated your day. Insha Allah, Bismillahi Kareem. I also congratulate the winner. In a contest, someone must win. A country that is within our eastern African region won the election. So, we have every reason to also celebrate and congratulate them because in any contest, we expected to have a winner and a loser. We expected to win. We did not win, and we cannot be sore losers. Many things happened. I was in Addis Ababa. I do not want to talk about them now, but that is part of the election. You do not have to complain or begrudge anyone. Hon. Speaker, all of us defeated someone to be in this House. We had opponents in the election. To be elected Speaker, you also had opponents. As Azimio, we had a candidate. The Kenya Kwanza Coalition proposed you, and you got the biggest number of votes. Today, you are presiding here as our Speaker. You are a Speaker for all of us. We are not saying, ‘We lost, another Speaker must sit next to you - the one who lost to you.’ We cannot work like that. Therefore, in a contest, it goes that way. I want Kenyans to get experience from this contest because this will not be the last time a Kenyan will contest for an international job. I encourage the Government of the Republic of Kenya to nominate and support qualified Kenyans when seeking international positions. The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General position is coming up next year. If there is a Kenyan who feels qualified to become the Secretary-General of the UN, they should go for it, and Kenyans will support them. It does not matter whether you win or lose. Go for it. Many countries in this region have done very well - much better than our country - in terms of positioning their people in multilateral organisations. We have not done so well as a country in that sphere. We have to pull up our stocks and make sure that many Kenyans go out there to seek international positions. Even the ones who are celebrating, instead of holding people in villages somewhere in Nyeri, they should release them to participate in such contests. Let them go for international positions if they are qualified. Do not hold people there, buying them uji every day when they are qualified with bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Take them out. ‘wamunyoro’ is not a church, unless it is another Shakahola, where people go with the intention of dying inside. On behalf of my party, constituency and on my own behalf, I thank the President for showing leadership and supporting the candidature of our party leader. I also congratulate my party leader. He is a strong man - a very strong man - and he always gets a second chance. If there is any other position to serve in on the continent, he will be available. In the world, everywhere, he has been available. He has served the African Union before, and we will continue supporting him. He is my leader, and we will ensure that we provide our services to the people of this country and continent at any level and in whichever capacity that we can."
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