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    "id": 895375,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Kibera during the 2007 post-election violence. Unless we built the software that drives us – the software starts with unity, a Kenyan identity and a people proud of themselves, that, I do not look down upon you because you do not speak the language I speak; that, I will not choose a political leader because he comes from place – that does not mean that he will deliver. So, we are standing behind the President in the Building Bridges Initiative. When it began, I kept saying, why is it that it is only old people involved? Why is it that the youngest person there is, maybe, 50 or 60 years old yet the majority in our country are young people? I told myself that is the wrong question to ask. Young people will stop being asked to be involved. They will realise that every generation has its cause and season. The season and cause for the young people of this country, and I am proud to be one of them, even constitutionally, is to unite this country. Every time this country has needs to be taken to the next level, it has been done by the young people. In the 1940s and 1950s moving on to the 1960s, it was the young Thomas Joseph Mboya in his 20s who went around this world negotiating the Piccadilly Constitution, the Lyttleton settlement up until Lancaster. Mwai Kibaki was 32 years old when he was the executive director of KANU. All of them were young. They did not have the facilities and conveniences we have today of"
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