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    "speaker_name": "Sen. G.G. Kariuki",
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        "legal_name": "Godfrey Gitahi Kariuki",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I thank you for allowing me to make a statement on the visit of the President of the USA. Madam Temporary Speaker, first of all, I want to congratulate those who made an effort including the President of the United States of American (USA) for agreeing to come to Kenya to see how far we have gone since he was here last as a Senator. His coming here did not just happen like some of us want to believe and to tell us that it happened because he was coming home. The President of USA is a President of the whole world and he is leading a strong nation. Before I say what I want to say, I sometimes find it difficult when we have a visitor like the USA President and we start arguing about our problems. He is not coming here to manage us. He is coming to help us appreciate what happens when a nation is run properly, has good leadership and believes in the rule of law and democracy. This is what may have attracted his coming because it did not just happen. You cannot invite a friend to your house and you and your husband start to talk about what he should have done or what you should have done. When a visitor comes, we listen to what he says, we let him go back and we remain with our own problems. We should learn something from him. If we do not, we should stay with our dumbness. That is how the world is. Madam Temporary Speaker, I think we need to mature. President Obama is not coming to where is father was born. I worked with his father. He was a specialist in economics and we engaged him to do write-ups on economic matters. I was personally his vice Chairman and Ole Tipis was the Chairman. So, I know President Obama’s father very well. These are things that one should keep with himself. One should not be talking about how they have worked with so-and-so. I do not know who they want to tell and what they will get out of it. They can tell somebody who was not born here. Madam Temporary Speaker, we must look beyond our borders. The President of the USA has seen beyond our trivial problems of whether the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) did a good job or not. He is coming here because he is concerned about world peace. He would like to see a peaceful world and that is the work of the USA. In that peaceful world, where will the USA and Kenya be? He has Kenyan roots and he cannot forget Kenya. When he is here, he does not think that he came from The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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