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    "id": 392136,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. G.G. Kariuki",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 330,
        "legal_name": "Godfrey Gitahi Kariuki",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I think that I had better be given an opportunity. I was referring to the boys and girls who are growing to have a future. There are young people here and I respect them. But I think that they look at us and expect us to come out with something that can get them out of this economic quagmire and problems they have all the time. But when we are here, we seem not to realize that we have many people who rely on us. Madam Temporary Speaker, for example, in 1970 after being an Assistant Minister for four years and people were not being settled enough because we relied on money from Britain, I decided to collect quite a number of people and told them: “Please, come in; let us join together” and we bought about 400,000 acres and resettled 48,000 families. Therefore, Madam Temporary Speaker, there are many things that we can do if you really want to do something for your people. But if you just want to join the bandwagon of unscrupulous landlords and business people, then this country will go on, and on! We have wasted 50 years, and I would call these years, years of preparations. Now those who are there, the younger people, should move without talking about the past because the past is immaterial. You can tell us about what happened in 1960 or 1980, but it has nothing to do with us. What is going to help us is what is going to be there tomorrow and what I am doing here today; and that is my life. I do not now treat this process as a major thing. I always look ahead and see what is beyond the National Assembly, the Senate and Parliament. Can we be better than what we are? Can we be seen as a new crop of people who really see this world from a better perspective? This is what I personally think--- Madam Temporary Speaker, I know my time is coming to an end. Thank you very much---"
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