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    "content": "Kenya must play a role that is commensurate to its status in this region. We are the super power of this region, economically and in many other ways. When you look at the African picture - the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) tells us that we have the highest and most qualified human resource, better than any other African country apart from the Arab North. This is something we hold with a lot of pride. If you go to Namibia, South Africa or wherever, you will find Kenyan nurses, professors, doctors and engineers. The same engineers that mess up our roads here do a very wonderful job down in South Africa because of the better systems they work under. You feel very proud when you go out there and find your compatriots doing a job that everybody is proud of. Everywhere you go, you will hear that the Kenyan troops have done a wonderful job. We owe it to our region. Somalia, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Sudan and Ethiopia have had their fair share of problems. The only neighbours to Kenya that have had peace throughout our history is Tanzania and the Indian Ocean. Nowhere else have we had peace. We know what happened during the era of Idd Amin in Uganda where Kenya was a recipient of serious security challenges. We must, as a country, rise to the occasion and help others, the same way Nigeria took it upon itself and said that as the big brother in West Africa, under ECOWAS, they will command ECOMOG and move into each and every country and stabilize them. They are now in Mali, where I nearly lost my life and in many other countries, stabilizing West Africa. When you go to West Africa now, Sierra Leone is stable and maturing. Cote d’ivoire and Liberia are also stable and maturing, and things are moving on well. The only nightmare that we see now is the erratic behaviour of the President of a little country called Gambia, who doubles up as a witchdoctor and President at the same time. He is doing crazy things. Today, he is overthrowing the constitution and the next day he is banning foreigners and doing all manner of things."
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