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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "I watched and even participated in the Obama visit. Not even once did the President of Kenya or the President of the USA mention the word “Parliament”. It seems to me there is an attempt to create another crop of leadership in this country away from Parliament and that cannot go unnoticed. So, that was a negative. We want to tell the USA Embassy, our State House and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs--- I sit in the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations. The kind of disdain and disrespect we get from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is what led to that. That is what we saw. We cannot beg to participate in doing our job as Members of Parliament. We have nothing to praise if nothing was presented before Parliament. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to state the positive which I hope and beg Kenyans will read from. I am talking about corruption, mediocrity and negative ethnicity. In this country, no matter how much you praise economic growth, and for as long as we keep being a mediocre people, it does not really matter. Now we are talking and nobody in this country is admitting that we are inherently so corrupt. Everything is corrupt. Our blood and thoughts are corrupt. That is what President Obama was talking about. He was telling us that we are going nowhere unless we change. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I saw the headline of the Daily Nation newspaper. It said that it is possible, but only if we pull together. It is time for us to pull together. We should begin from this House so that when we talk, we walk the talk. When we say things, we say things that we mean. Hon. Dennitah Ghati said that you cannot have a country where it is the norm for the ruling class to be the people who are on the top two on the ticket. People are suffering. That is something we cannot run away from. There is corruption. It is interesting because one of the governors said that he is going to host President Obama in Siaya and spent Kshs52 million. He was sitting in front of me in Kasarani. When President Obama spoke about corruption, his fingers were cleft. He did not clap when the rest of Kenyans clapped because corruption is a culture that we must deal with in this country. That is what President Obama was talking about. So, I would like us to praise, but let us do it right. Let leaders come here, but there would be nothing wrong with President Obama coming here and addressing this House."
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