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    "id": 300435,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. ole Ntimama",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for National Heritage",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "William Ronkorua ole Ntimama",
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I want to support the President’s Memorandum very strongly. Indeed, had he not come out this way, it would have been a disaster for some communities in this country. I can tell you that there would have been communities in this country whose Members of Parliament were brought to this House because of their popularity, who would probably not have seen Parliament again because of this little thing. I thank the President very much. Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I also want to say very briefly that this is a question of leadership versus intellectualism or professionalism, or whatever it is. Leadership is something that is given by God but you have to add wisdom, commitment and courage to be a leader of human beings. Leadership is a rare quality or rare “commodity”. Let me just give a few examples of leaders who were not academicians and who, probably, never made it to the academic or technological levels that may be required to become the greatest leaders of this world. Let me start with Africans in Kenya. There was a man called Harry Thuku, who started one of the biggest revolutions in this country, involving women, children and men. Harry Thuku was a man who started to show the world and the colonial office that we wanted independence. Harry Thuku did not go to any school. If he went to some school somewhere in his village up to Standard One or Standard Two, that would probably be it, but he was an effective leader. He commanded leadership and led the people of this country. We will remember him as one of the people who, probably, would have led this country to get independence even before Jomo Kenyatta went to England to study and start the whole struggle for the Independence of this country. Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, we can also talk about some other people in the world. Wilson Churchill, for example, never went beyond Grammar School. Those who have read the books of history know that Churchill never went beyond Grammar School, but he managed to become one of the greatest leaders in his country. Take the Second World, for example. He led all the allies, who included America and Russia, to defeat Nazism, Fascism and some militarism in the East. He was really a great man but he never went beyond Grammar School, not forgetting the fact that he wrote so many books of history of warfare, which cannot be imagined by anyone else."
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