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    "id": 97927,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Medical Services",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, finally, having said that, it is extremely important for this nation to pressurize our Government and indeed, our institutions like universities and so on, both public and private to help this nation build a capacity in participating in these meetings. The Francophone African countries happen to be better equipped, usually in these meetings by knowing or understanding English. Our delegations from Anglophone speaking countries are less prepared. Somehow, we have been averse to learning foreign languages and, therefore, being better diplomats and participants to these meetings. I would request our delegations to these meetings to make these particular recommendations to our nation, particularly those participating in the diplomatic service. It is high time that the School of Diplomacy that we have at the University of Nairobi, that we have a very strong component of foreign languages teaching which should be open to our diplomats and even parliamentarians to acquire basic skills of communication in these languages spoken in Africa, which makes it better for us to be envoys and ambassadors to such meetings and even act as envoys of our nation abroad."
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