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    "id": 646109,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) G.G. Kariuki",
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        "legal_name": "Godfrey Gitahi Kariuki",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I have no objection to the question by my honourable friend. If we subjected it to an international debate, there would be no need for any boundary in this world. This is because you will enter Tanzania, Kenya and Somalia for that matter and no one will stand at the doors of economic forces. They will still move around whether we like it or not. People are being educated to move around. However, we are talking about a specific isolated problem. That is why we talk about landmass and population. As far as I am concerned, boundaries mean nothing. If you look at our history from 1894 and 1895, you will see how it was done. It is only those people who are powerful that we are following today. You have to be powerful to sustain yourself and what you have acquired. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this is what they did; the Germans and the British. They shared this country. Where were we to tell them not to share yet we were left like horses and only told to follow this path and no more? When they tell us to stop, we stop. This continued for a long time. My children continued with this kind of illegal perpetration of democratic life which I think we need to change. I did not intend to speak to this Bill because most people expected me to talk about my county government, my governor and my county assembly. Suppose you give them the opportunity to talk about their Senator, I even do not know what they are going to talk about me. Some of you just stand here and button your jackets thinking that you now control the world. Nothing! You must know that you are a servant and we must be slaves of our people, which we have refused; we have decided to say no; we have decided to take money from them and we do not care. Many people have died since Independence with billions of shillings. None of them has been taken with him all his money to the coffin. We just leave them here to be shared by the second or third wife with their children and some unknown women."
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