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    "id": 429516,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/429516/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Okoth",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kenneth Odhiambo Okoth",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to comment on the President’s Speech. The first part of it that I will touch on is international relations. In terms of our foreign policy, the Government of President Uhuru Kenyatta has not done enough. We are letting our partnerships and diplomatic relations with countries such as the European Union (EU) to falter and that is not going to help us very much. We know that organizations and partners such as the EU have been funding road construction in many parts of the country outside Nairobi and if we do not make good friendly relationships and maintain them at the level they should be, it is Kenya that will suffer. We will lose funding and if we do not use the tyranny of numbers from the Jubilee side to make sure that our Budget obligations and spending patterns work in a way that we can get the money that we need from them, then we will be failing the Kenyans. I also want to make it clear that on the international affairs, when Kenya is being unfriendly to our diplomatic partners and castigating them the whole time, it is Tanzania and Ethiopia that will benefit from our blunders. There is nothing too special about Nairobi that cannot be moved to Arusha or Dar-es-Salaam. We can already see that a lot is being moved to Addis Ababa. So, we need to be very careful. I criticize as a patriot and I say that our international relations are in flux."
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