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    "id": 726880,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gikaria",
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        "legal_name": "David Gikaria",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to note this Report by His Excellency the President. It is very sad that Members take advantage of their position to cry foul just to make their leaders happy. They blame the Government over issues that are not even there. It is very unfortunate that people take very extremist approaches over any report brought here by the President. They blame the Government for failure yet we are just talking about national values and principles. Hon. Njuguna made it clear that we should be patriotic. We went to Israel on a mission with the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security. Israel has an effective and powerful opposition. When we were talking about fighting terrorism, we asked the Leader of the Opposition Party to tell us the position of the Opposition there when it comes to fighting terrorism. He told us that when it comes to fighting terrorism, they forget their political differences and fight as Israelites. We should take that approach. We should honour our soldiers who have died in Somalia, fighting for our country. People should not use their deaths to claim that the Government does not care about them. Those soldiers have died in Somalia because of patriotism. Terrorists do not attack specific tribes but Kenyans. We need to ask ourselves what would happen if we had not gone to Somalia. May be, we would have lost many lives because terrorists would be free. I want to tell Members that it is not right to just take any opportunity to attack the Government. The National Super Alliance (NASA) is an outfit of people coming together to share positions. They have no agenda for this country. Our Opposition is just there to focus on themselves because they do not care about Kenyans. We have been told that Kenya is deeply divided. I invite Hon. Kaluma to come to Nakuru to witness all the tribes living together, and young people intermarrying. I want to ask him to go to Mombasa and see how communities are living together there. They do not know their differences. We tell Kenyans how deeply divided we are for our own selfish reasons yet out there, Kikuyus are intermarrying with Luos. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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