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    "id": 644044,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/644044/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Uhuru Kenyatta",
    "speaker_title": "His Excellency the President",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 168,
        "legal_name": "Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta",
        "slug": "uhuru-kenyatta"
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    "content": "Fellow Kenyans, hon. Members, today, I invite you to a moment of national self- reflection. At a personal level, I am compelled to return to the question of our nationhood as crafted by our founding fathers and re-imagined by us in August, 2010. In discussing this question, I will expound on the Nationalist Covenant. This Covenant was crafted as an exchange of promises and guarantees between the communities that make Kenya. It was built as a bond that waxes the 42 communities to one nation. It defined our lowest common denominator and our irreducible minimum as a collection of communities. It was our unwritten contract binding one to all and all to one. That is what convinced all of us to join hands and constitute Kenya. But as the country developed, we took this Nationalist Covenant for granted. We assumed it until we saw other nations losing it and falling asunder. We ignored it until we faced the dangers of losing it in 2007. Now, it is at the centre of our national question and we must tackle it head-on. The question we must now pose is: What is our individual and collective responsibility to this Covenant? If it is the base upon which our nationhood is build, how much do we engage with it? How do we protect it from ourselves and others? How do we preserve it for our children and generations to come?"
}