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    "id": 1133881,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1133881/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwea, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Josphat Kabinga",
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        "legal_name": "Josphat Kabinga Wachira",
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    "content": "and the choice was either to create havoc in this country, or to reach out to one Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga, to ensure that there was peace in this country. As a conflict advisor, I can say that this country was not heading the right direction but out of the choice that the President made, we are able to now talk about what we have achieved as a country. The President went ahead and converted the various challenges that we had during that time including the election violence, corona that followed into opportunities. He was articulate enough to tell us what this country has done, highlighted a lot of successes in Kilifi, Kitui and Makueni giving examples of opportunities that we have had to take out of the pandemic that we were in. The President went ahead and highlighted some of the interventions that he has had to make. These interventions were criticized by a section of this country and people really wanted the President to fail. We thank God that he stood by his choices, his interventions and that is why we are where we are. If the President listened to those that were criticizing him, this country would be somewhere else and not where it is now. We had interventions that touched on the tax reductions, economic stimulus activities in various sectors including tea. I can attest to the fact even rice sector had interventions that helped our farmers get out of the problems that they were in. There were many things that the President talked about. On security, most people in this country have never sat to ask themselves the problems that we have had, the threats from al-Shabaab, al-Qaeda, Isis and other outlawed groups. How did we manage it in the midst of corona pandemic? If people can get into that thinking, then they would understand and know how much the President has had to put in especially the interventions, including motivating the security sector. It is, therefore, important as a country to stop taking advantage of the problems that we have to perpetuate politics of self-interest that are unsustainable and more so taking advantage of the youth."
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