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    "content": "When we see a flag, we immediately know that is a national or public institution. Let us change this. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you will notice that Kenyans are inherently patriotic, when you go to Las Vegas in March, during the Las Vegas Rugby Sevens Series. You will see Kenyans wearing all manner of T-shirts with flags, and the whole world recognizes. The whole world recognized at the last Olympics, the beauty of the national anthem of Kenya and the flag when it was raised just before the closing ceremony. Everybody said: “Wow, that anthem sounds like a movie score and that flag is one of the most beautiful flags that we have in the world.” However, despite Kenyans being inherently patriotic, we need a deliberate project and process to bring out this patriotism and make Kenyans have a common identity. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, what will my colleagues or you say if I ask you what it means to be a Kenyan for it is not just about us being over 40 million people who are found within the same borders who have to get along. It will be difficult for many people to answer the question. What does it mean to be a Kenyan? What do we brand Kenya to be? What is the brand that we sell out there? If you look at the United States of America (USA), at their lowest time during depression, Congress and the President summoned Hollywood and Showbiz and asked them to start creating in the psyche and the minds of the people the idea of an invisible America and the idea of Captain America. They created movies, songs and even christened themselves as home of the free and land of the brave thus creating that identity. In our case, can we say that we are 43 small nations within the 581,309 square kilometres or can we create an identity? Recently when we interacted with the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), which is headed by Amb. Martin Kimani, who went to a good school just like you did together with Sen. M. Kajwang', I remember asking him---"
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