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    "id": 103468,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/103468/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
    "speaker_title": "The Prime Minister",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Raila Amolo Odinga",
        "slug": "raila-odinga"
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am glad to report to the House that despite many challenges our reform agenda, particularly with regard to our long search for a new Constitution, is by and large on track. Before I give specifics, I want to thank the hon. Members of Parliament who on 1st April, 2010 adopted the Draft Constitution as part of the reforms agreed in 2008, to end the post-election violence. I have reason to commend this House and it is based on our history. In June, 1982, this Parliament amended the Constitution, making Kenya officially a one party state. Since that time our National Assembly has been seen as a place where Members of Parliament gather to frustrate reform and enact laws that favour them and other ruling and business elite in the country, while the wananchi suffer. This image got firmly implanted in the minds of Kenyans when Members of Parliament sat in this House to argue that Kenya did not need multiparty politics, while the wananchi fought in the streets and died in prisons to press for the opening up of the political space."
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