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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mwaura",
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "What he meant was that leading is putting people in front and making them feel that they are in charge, but actually you are the one calling the shots. When you maintain the tempo, the team helps you to move forward. That is a very important issue that comes out very well. They never moved out of the ‘V-shaped formation around him at any given point. They never got distracted and that talks about unity of purpose. Eliud Kipchoge provides us with a good opportunity to have very good lessons that can be applied for the benefit of the development of our society. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Eliud Kipchoge is a Kenyan. However, he went to get his glory in Vienna, Austria. The late Julius Nyerere speaks about the inheritance of the African state. I say African state because that is what we are trying to govern now. The African state is inherited from the Western model that is coming from an individual contractual society and the nuances inherent in that very formation. An African is an individual within some kind of a fellowship. We are collegiate so that if, for example, Eliud Kipchoge runs, some Kenyans will interpret that a Kalenjin is running. That is how we are and it is not a mistake. It is the truth. We may wonder why the marathon did not take place in Kenya. Why did it have to take place on the lawns of Vienna, Austria? Could we have made this within our communal society? Is Eliud a product of the success of the individual contractual society and the support of the INEOS and the other people around him? Those are some of the questions that we need to ask ourselves. Why is it that we do not have a national stadium for our athletes? We have the Nyayo National Stadium, City stadium and many others, but they are meant for football. We are not very good at football. At least not until we make it to the World Cup. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, athletics is our niche and I thank God for it. In the recent games we came second to the United States of America which is a super power. We are competing with the super powers in athletics even though countries like Qatar are poaching our people and giving them Islamic names which I wonder whether they are comfortable with. Athletics is what God has given us to leverage. However, we have not used it to market our country. Other people see athletics in our country as a big thing. The former President of the USA, George W. Bush, when he was still in power, was asked who his hero was and he said, Paul Tergat. Can you imagine that Paul Tergat was the hero of the most powerful president of the world? You can now see the connection of the rise of the African man. When Eliud Kipchoge speaks, he speaks with a lot of inspiration and the first black President of the USA, Barack Obama, who is our son, resonates with him. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, some of these happenings are speaking to something. We still have a lot of untapped potential. For example, I was recently in New York and noted that they sell toys of the New York Police Department (NYPD), the Empire State Building and many other monuments. Do we have that kind of The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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