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    "id": 573066,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Yes, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I will provide translation. Owad gi Auma wuoyi ma slope means the man who is slope. If you do not understand this, I cannot help you. Since Obama became President, slope has become an international word. There are two exciting things that have happened to me in this year: One is the coming of Don Moen who is a renowned gospel singer. As a very spiritual person, that was a moment for me to excel. Two is the coming of Obama, which for me and a lot of the lakeside people, was a moment for us to excel. I know many people in this country do not understand what it means to go through two successive elections which you believe that you have won and yet, you see the victory here and it goes. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker that we can have, as a nation, a President of the world coming here in the name of Obama, I know that there are people here who are excited but would pretend not to be. I do not pretend. I was excited. Other than my excitement, President Obama speaks the same language as I do on issues of governance, democratization, protection of women rights and dealing with the issue of ethnicity. I am a very proud Luo-Suba and I have no apologies - but do I say? I call on Kenyans that we must be proud of our heritage. This country has created ethnicity to toxic levels that most of us do not want to acknowledge what we are. Barack Obama, the President of the US, came here and the first person he met was a woman who travelled with him in the “Beast” because he recognized his heritage and recognized his family. He recognized his heritage as Luo-Kenyan and as an African and American. Yesterday, some Americans started attacking him on that basis saying that finally, he has come out of the closet and agreed that he is Kenyan. He did not say that he is Kenyan, but he acknowledged his Kenyan heritage which he cannot run away from. He comes from Kenya. I thank Kenyans, for the first time, for coming together and joining as a people and celebrating our son. I would wish that we move forward as a country. We like politicking as usual. We have started throwing jabs at each other that he said this or that to the Opposition, or this or that to Uhuru or William Ruto. If there is a time we need to unite as a country, it is now. If you did not listen to the message President Obama sent to us a country, then I can tell you that even if God came from heaven, you will not hear anything. Let us change as a country. I celebrate you Barack Obama. I met him in 2006, had breakfast with him for two hours, but do I say? I am happy."
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