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    "id": 606626,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/606626/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker Sir. My understanding is that the President of USA is coming to Kenya for a conference on entrepreneurship. The conference happens to be in Nairobi which also happens to be the homeland of his father. No clear statement is being made by the Government on this issue because as far as I understand it, while he is here, he will spare time to meet our President. That is the only information available. So, all these other proposals that are being made are completely flying in the face of the facts. If, indeed, Kenya wanted President Obama to come here for a much more extensive visit, it should not be prefaced on his visit for a purely international conference. I think we are missing the point. He will go out of office next year, so we should then make a separate arrangement for his more extensive visit to this nation. However, trying to piggyback on an entrepreneurship conference in Nairobi, which is going to have the participation of many other leaders, is a little bit cheap on our part. We should be more serious. If we want a visit by the President of the most powerful nation on earth, then it should be properly arranged and not piggybacked on an international conference in Nairobi. All these pleas that President Obama should visit here and there, to me, are completely misplaced. He has made it very clear that he is coming for a conference, he will accord the time to our President and they shall meet. Other people desiring to meet him will not do so."
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