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    "id": 924670,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "institutions. Sometimes when you go to a public meeting, there is a public address system. However, when the governor comes, he has got his own public address system and a podium. This is backwardness and foolishness. If you share a platform with the President of United States of America (USA), you use the platform that is available. If President Trump meets ordinary people, he does not sit in a seat like a throne. They even share the seats in the room. However, it is as if we are building images of governors and presidents like those of monarchs. They are not governments of the people, for the people and by the people. That habit must change. One of the most wonderful things I have seen in my life is that one day, when I was a young man, I was travelling from Arusha to Nairobi. I boarded a plane that had no first or business class at the time. I think there has not been a known Prime Minister of Sweden who is responsible for what Sweden is known for, other than Olof Palme. When we sat in that plane, the former Prime Minister of Sweden sat on the front seat with four people. He was escorted to the plane by another simple man, called Julius Nyerere, and I could not believe it. There are things that we do which are an exhibition of the kind of leadership we have, whether it is monarchical or a democratically elected government of the people, for the people and by the people. Therefore, Madam Temporary Speaker, the way county governments carry themselves willy-nilly pushes them to profligacy, where people do things in a big way. That is why they have to eat into public funds in order to build earthly empires. This kind of behavior is both at the county and national level. It is my hope that one day, Kenya will believe in servant leadership, where leaders are simple men and women who are accessible to the people. That is what President Abraham Lincoln talked about; a government of the people, by the people and for the people, and it should be a reality. Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. Once again, I thank the Committee for the work well done."
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