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    "id": 94360,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/94360/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Wekesa",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Forestry and Wildlife",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Noah Mahalang'ang'a Wekesa",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to join my colleagues in saying that this Ministry reflects the culture and dignity of the Kenyan people. Therefore, the Minister and his colleagues in the Ministry must bear that in mind. Even as we appoint people to be Ambassadors, we should be careful to appoint the best. I have travelled quite a bit and I want to commend the Minister for having very good officers in our foreign missions. They are very zealous, very welcoming and they do their job properly. I, however, find that Kenyans are short on languages. That is something that we should all wake up to. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we should emulate people in the western part of Africa where you find people speaking fluent French, Spanish and English; not just one foreign language. That is very useful to our staff as they serve various missions. Currently, as we speak, Arabic, Chinese and French are international languages. The Minister should work hand in hand with the Ministry of Education to make sure that those foreign languages are not just learnt for the sake of speaking a bit of this and that. Our children should grow up learning languages seriously so that, as Kenyans move around the globe, they can communicate effectively."
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