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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Musyoka",
    "speaker_title": "The Vice-President and Minister Home Affairs",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Musyoka Ndambuki",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you very much for that clarification which, I am sure, the hon. Member for Ikolomani will find useful. I was not on a party mission. It is not just Prof. Kaloki and Mr. Affey who joined me; Mr. Balala, who is an ODM Member of Parliament, came in as the Minister for Tourism and his expenses were covered by the Ministry. I really want to plead that we appreciate that we are going to be absolutely careful in the use of public funds. It is our intention to now try to lobby the P5s. Hon. Members will recall that a very senior delegation of the USA visited the President soon after he returned from Addis Ababa. Mr. Johnny Carson, who is in many ways a Kenyan, was able to, even in Addis Ababa itself--- This is in answer to Mr. Njuguna. They gave an indication that the Americans will be able to listen to Kenya. Therefore, it is our intention to lobby the USA, because we know they have a persuasive voice. Already the People’s Republic of China, through their ambassador here in Nairobi- --- It is important that we take this battle to its logical conclusion. The passion with which the Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs and the Government have taken this matter goes to show that there is nothing personal here. It is just that we must get our country back in order to be respected. Therefore, I was dismayed to read one of the best newspapers, the East African, giving a completely distorted view of Kenyan diplomacy. Today if you walk across our border with Southern Sudan, you will appreciate the warmth with which you will be received as a Kenyan. Right now we are lobbying to see whether the CD No. 2 of Northern Sudan should properly come to Kenya. The East African Community is going to be richer as a result of Kenyan diplomacy. That paper gave the impression that Kenya has become a diplomatic joke. I want, in the strongest words possible, to condemn that thinking, because nothing can be further from the truth. I indicated that we even want to take the chair of---"
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