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    "id": 1129880,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1129880/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "having been said, the chronology of events, the list of things that have been done, the progress that has been made, the infrastructure and other frameworks that have been put in place are definitely something for this country to celebrate and congratulate His Excellency the President for. Rome was not build in a day. The foundation stone must be laid and if there is one President who has laid the foundation stone for the take-off of this country, no matter how we want to view his performance, he has done well by those measures. I would like to congratulate him by looking at the analysis of some of the things he has shared with us. From my own back of the envelope analysis, having read these reports as well as looking at some of the key measures he has outlined for us, I would like to acknowledge that he has laid a proper contextual framework in the sense that he has talked to us about the need for nationhood and the need to focus on the economy and the social structure of our country. Without the social structure that gives the dignity and belonging to the country, even the economical things cannot come into play. Without nationhood, other things seem to be on a higher hierarchy than the basics. With that in mind, I congratulate the President for these things. However, there are areas in which we could have done better. There are areas I feel perhaps a little more delineation and breakdown would have done us well. There are very many disparities in this country depending on geography, demographics, gender and these kinds of things. We needed to see of the good things that have happened in this country in the last eight years, how much of that benefit has gone to the women and the youth of this country? Of the good things that have happened and all this great stimulus packages, how much has gone to Northern Kenya, to the formally marginalized? I know we are being asked these days not to talk about marginalization, but people do not come from marginalization of 100 years in eight or five years. There are still many disparities regionally, demographically, gender wise, and in Persons with Disabilities (PWDs)."
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