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    "id": 1037564,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1037564/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Igembe North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Maoka Maore",
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        "legal_name": "Richard Maore Maoka",
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    "content": "and institutions. When you talk of institutions, you remember last month when the Democrats won in the United States of America elections and the incumbent started saying he wanted to resist, the quick quip from Mr. Biden was that America had institutions which could flash out trespassers into the White House when needed to do so. As we have watched, slowly, the transition that will be there on 20th January 2021 is automatic. There will be a transition, whether or not there is grumbling by the incumbent. It is because the institutions that are supposed to make sure elections are respected are there. So, that is what is lacking in Africa. Unfortunately, Kenya has been made an experiment by this thing you call the 2010 Constitution whereby everybody who has partaken of the cake of the civil society, whether in ideology or in lifestyle, wanted to experiment something. They put all of it in our Constitution. Ten years later, we are having indigestion with it. When we want to do changes on it, still they want to cause problems in the next election. I will give a quick example. We have the proposal to have 360 Members of Parliament. Then there is a gap: we may not even know the number of the next Parliament. That is a recipe for an experiment on how chaos can be organised. As we agree on this Charter, matters that we undertake generally, from coast to coast, in Africa, should be universally acceptable. For that reason, I support the idea that we entrench this Charter into our laws so that we can have a predictable behaviour when it comes to democracy, elections and governance in Africa."
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