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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Muturi",
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        "legal_name": "Justin Bedan Njoka Muturi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to say one or two words about the Vote of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From the outset, I would like to appreciate the sentiments expressed by other speakers regarding what we are calling \"Kenya's Foreign Policy\". We have seen several policy documents and blueprints brought to this House, debated and adopted. We have seen one on education and another one on the youth. We have also seen another one on Jua Kali or something like that. One would have expected that in January, 2003, when the new Government took over, they were now going to come up with, at least, a new a document August 28, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3493 defining Kenya's foreign policy. We are just being told that--- We are lucky that I insisted that this Ministry's Vote be debated, because it has never been debated for as long as the memory of man runs to the the contrary. It has never been debated. It has always been guillotined. It is important and I want to congratulate hon. Members of the Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations, chaired by Mr. G.G. Kariuki, because of their insistence and request that we debate this Ministry's Vote, so that hon. Members may be able to say what they have to say. However, when we do not have any document to which one can refer as the document containing Kenya's foreign policy that has been debated and adopted by this House, which represents the body politic of the entire country, then when the Minister stands here to say that there has been a shift in Kenya's foreign policy, I can just but imagine some English saying, which I believe Messrs. Wetangula and Kembi-Gitura are quite familiar with, that in a similar fashion, we say justice is as long as the judge's foot."
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