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    "id": 535289,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Shidiye",
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        "legal_name": "Mohamed Muktar Shidiye",
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    "content": "leaders in Kenya and Africa as a whole. It is very rare for a President to apologise on behalf of his Government and on behalf of other governments. He apologised on behalf of his father who did mistakes, Moi and Kibaki. That clearly indicates that he means well for this country. We have presidents who changed their countries. We have Nelson Mandela, Lee Kuan Yew, Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad and others. There are presidents who changed their countries from Third World countries to First World countries. Those presidents were focused, they were thinking beyond imagination and they were thinking about how to change their countries. At Independence, we were at the same level with Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and many other southern Asian countries. However, today, those countries have forged ahead. They have improved the lives of their people. Today, Kenya is still poor. Why are we poor? We are poor because of two reasons: First, it is because of too much politics. From the first day an election is won to the last day, we only talk about politics. Politics will not bring food on the table of Kenyans. Divisive politics and negative ethnicity which is toxic to this country has spoilt this country to an extent that the Government is unable to move its agenda. Every time people are going to court and every day rallies are conducted. One would think that we are in an election year all times. This kind of politics must change. We must have discipline of management, direction and understanding in our country. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the other issue which I want to discuss that the President talked about at length is corruption. It has been said here that corruption is a cancer. Unless we go head on and stop this corruption, this country will be finished. It will go down the drain. It will go to the dogs. We will suffer more. We will be a banana country. You cannot imagine that 50 years down the road, people are still begging for food, thanks to corruption. We still do not have proper infrastructure. Thailand has over 100,000 kilometres of motorable tarmac road. Today, in Kenya, we have only 11,000 kilometers of motorable tarmac road. It is all because of corruption. Corruption must be declared a national disaster. Unless we believe and change this country from within---The society in Kenya believes that for you to be elected, you must have money. The society in Kenya believes that if you are employed as a policeman, you have to steal. Everybody thinks that anybody who is given a position must steal. Things must change. We must change. The Judiciary, the Executive and the Legislature are rotten. It is the truth. Unless we call for a national healing conference to discuss corruption as a subject, we will go nowhere. Let us not cheat ourselves. This country can be changed only by us and not other people. We must support our President for the good work."
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