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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "It is very critical that I appreciate my colleagues for getting this opportunity to represent us. As we all know, the PAP was formed so that we can have the African peoples’ voices collectively on some of the most pressing and emerging issues of our time. As a young person coming from Kenya, I am looking at this privilege that you two and other colleagues in the ‘lower’ House have, it is critical to encourage you to look into matters of governance. Today in Africa Continent, one of the highest levels of challenge is the concept of democracy amidst issues such as high cost of living. We constantly see African countries facing issues of democracy through issues of peaceful elections. The institutions that anchor democracy are not given power. As long as the election have been done and we have got a declared result without any kind of conflict or problems, it is assumed that is democracy. These are very critical causes because, as I speak today, our country is faced with serious issues of high cost of living. In such a country - which I do not think is dissimilar with other African countries you are going to meet - when we have this serious high cost of living and yet democracy is reduced to a simple matter of rubber-stamping of leaders in offices, then it becomes a very difficult issue to deal with."
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