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    "id": 946739,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Kamar",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 33,
        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I thank you for giving me the opportunity to join my colleagues in congratulating Eliud Kipchoge. I thank Sen. Cheruiyot for coming up with this Motion. It was such a wonderful moment for all of us in Kenya to watch Eliud Kipchoge run to the last point and win in a very colourful manner. I agree with fellow colleagues who have said that it brought the unity of purpose in this country. When we saw him holding the Kenyan flag, all of us had goose bumps because we felt good about it. I congratulate him and Brigid Kosgei who put Kenya on the map within two days. As we congratulate our athletes, we need to question the role that has been played by the Government of Kenya in building our athletes. I come from Uasin Gishu County where the legend, Kipchoge, comes from. We had made proposal to recognise his contribution to this country with a wonderful international standard stadium, but that has not been realized. The journey of building the Kipchoge Stadium started when I was the Member of Parliament of Eldoret East. However, to date, we have not finished building it. We now have a younger Kipchoge who has done us more good than the senior Kipchoge. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I thank this House for the County Hall of Fame Bill (Senate Bills No.39 of 2018). Many heroes and heroines of this country will be recognized, named, and written about for posterity. Many counties will make money as a result of the county halls of fame because people will want to walk in to learn about the people that have made Kenya proud in athletics, music, football and other sectors. I sometimes feel that we, as a country, have a low sense of appreciation of human being. Not just athletes, but even the people who have made a mark in other sectors. The other day, there was a wild debate on whether we should have the founding father of this nation on the new notes. The question should be whether the founding father sacrificed for this country? We should not even debate about having him on the notes. We should have demanded to have him on the notes. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have to improve our sense of appreciation. I just came back from a prayer breakfast in Uganda. We were welcomed in a unique way. We felt really welcomed because we were taken care of as hon. Members in a very special way courtesy of the Speaker of the Ugandan Parliament. What struck me most is that a footballer by the name Otieno was given an opportunity to address the prayer breakfast; first, because he is a believer. Secondly, this is because the Government of Uganda felt that he had done a great job by scoring. In fact, in his speech, he quickly said: “I had better inform the Kenyans in the room that I am Otieno of Uganda, and not of Kenya.” We told him “please, pack your bags and go home because there are no Otienos’ in Uganda.” From the sense of appreciation that he was given, you would feel that there is no way he would want to exchange Uganda for any other country."
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