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    "id": 1152653,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1152653/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, in his first term as a Member of Parliament, the late retired President Mwai Kibaki’s standing as an economist earned him appointment as an Assistant Minister for Finance and Chairman of the Economic Planning Commission in 1963. Later on in 1966, he was elevated to the position of Minister for Commerce and Industry, a position in which he served until 1969 when he was appointed Minister for Finance and Economic Planning. In 1978, he was appointed Vice-President and served until March 1988. When Section 2A of the Constitution was repealed in December 1991 following political agitation for multiparty democracy that was inspired by the winds of change from one-party politics to multiparty democratic parties that was blowing across the African Continent, the late Third President resigned from the Government and the ruling party, the Kenya African National Union (KANU), and founded the Democratic Party of Kenya (DP). This bold decision marked a new trajectory in the political career of the late retired President Kibaki. He joined the presidential race in the first multi-party General Elections of 1992 in which he came fourth. He contested for the presidency in the subsequent General Elections in 1997, where he came second to the late President Moi and became the Leader of the Official Opposition in the National Assembly. In 2002, the late retired Third President made another stab at the presidency under the National Alliance Rainbow Coalition (NARC) Party and won with an astounding landslide majority, becoming Kenya’s Third President. He was re-elected President for a second term in 2007 under the Party of National Unity. Once again, let me allow the Members at the door to make their way in."
}