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    "id": 573117,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. G.W. Omondi",
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        "legal_name": "George Washinton Mallan Omondi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Let me try to correct the belief that Obama is an American. When he came here, he recognized that he is from Alego Usonga and apologized to the people for not visiting them. I stand here on behalf of the people of Alego Usonga to thank the Kenyan Government and the people of Kenya for showing a lot of maturity when the son of Alego Usonga and son of Kenya visited this country. The unity we showed during his visit is what we should move ahead with from the time he left us. President Obama told us so many things, but one thing has not been mentioned here. He talked about his grandfather, who was a cook for the wazungus. I think what he meant by that story, which he has told severally even in his book, is that your background in leadership does not matter. What matters is what you are. This is what the Kenyan youth and the leadership of this country should know. Leadership should not be inherited or inborn. It can be created. He talked about insecurity, corruption, tribalism and good governance. These are not new things but he was trying to emphasize them so that we know they are known outside there. As the leader of the free world, he was telling us that it was time we recognized that these are our evils that are dragging us behind and making our economy not move forward. We know these things, but we refuse to practice them. I do not know whether it will be for Obama to come and tell us to practice them or we will think about them and put them into practice. Obama warned us that we did not inherit this country from our ancestors. We have borrowed it from our youth, who are our next generation. As we run this country and businesses, if we have to go by what Obama said, we should know that we should leave this world a better place than we found it, and hand it over to our next generation. Obama talked about tribalism and said that it is frustrating our human resource and yet, we train our experts at a very high fee. After I graduate as a doctor, an engineer or a teacher and I want to go to work in Nyeri, I am seen as a Luo and not a Kenyan expert who can use my expertise to serve the people of Nyeri or Garissa."
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