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    "id": 1139149,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1139149/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13184,
        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to join you in wishing my colleagues a happy new year. As I sat here listening to my colleagues, everybody hopes that the Political Parties (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.56 of 2021) gets the due diligence it deserves and that we do the right thing with it. However, I think we should not be hoping, we should be reassuring this country that as Senators, we will do what we do best. In the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) process, we did the right thing. If that is the case, what is different with this Political Parties (Amendment) Bill? On my part, I am not going to hope that due process is followed or that we will do the right thing. I am going to reassure Kenyans that from where I sit, this House will do the right thing. This is because if each of us decides and commits to do the right thing, there is no reason to hope but to just do it. From where I sit, I would like to reassure the people of Isiolo County, this country as well as my party, the Kenya National African Union (KANU), that I will do the right thing. The Political Parties (Amendment) Bill will get the accountability it needs and the"
}