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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wako",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Sitswila Wako",
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    "content": "We moved the amendment to make Kenya as a multi-party democratic State. The hope of the people was that if we became a democratic State; a multi-party State with freedom of expression, the rule of law, transparency and accountability in leadership, we would begin a second liberation as they called it. We now have a Constitution that was promulgated on the 27th August 2010, when I was still the Attorney-General. The hope then seems to have gone down, but is now being ignited again by President Uhuru by giving us a focus of how the country should now move. I believe that is why President Uhuru and the former Prime Minister, Hon. Raila Odinga, did the ‘Handshake’. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I believe that the ‘handshake’ was done with very genuine intentions for this country. It was not done to promote the political development of one person. It was not done just to distribute jobs to the boys. It was done for the good of this country and if you read the first report of the BBI, you will then see that all these things we talked about economic revolution is what is required in this country. By the way, we talked about bottoms-up in that report, so these are not new ideas. These are ideas that emanated from the BBI. I agree with His Excellency the President when he said that he hopes that the ideas contained in that report should be carried out in one way or another. I do hope that whoever is elected as the President or whomever is a Presidential candidate should commit themselves to implementing the noble objectives and the recommendations of constitutional legislative, administrative and policy recommendations that are contained in the BBI report, or at least most of them. I believe that the implementation will go a long way in making Kenya a cohesive society in which each and every person in Kenya will feel that he belongs and that he also benefits equally from the fruits of his labor in this country. Let me also touch on two issues, which nobody has raised here. I request that you give me a little more time to finalize my contribution if my time elapses."
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