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    "id": 1371472,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1371472/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "His Excellency the President",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta",
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    "content": "3. The 10th Annual Report on the State of National Security. With profound humility, I will not hesitate to acknowledge that a lot of the successes we have achieved in delivering the Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda was due to the patriotic support and solidarity from Members of Parliament, both in the Senate and the National Assembly. We are fortunate to be attempting this ambitious historic project of radical change in a bipartisan era when dialogue, consensus, collaboration and partnership have replaced dissent, contention, conflict and disarray, as the operating principles of political discourse. Issue-oriented politics is not just a democratic necessity and a pathway to sustainable transformation. It is the most effective way of mobilising diversity for collective national good. As the world reels from destructive assaults on democracy and the relentless subversion of human dignity, freedom reigns supreme in our land and our democracy grows deeper and more robust by the day. Our collective resolve as a nation to further entrench constitutionalism, democracy, and good governance is a unique quality which confers on us an incomparable advantage – the power to face the future without fear, to imagine a transformation that extends to posterity and envision prosperity that benefits our children’s offspring and beyond. As long as we put the welfare of the people of Kenya as our central agenda and play our respective roles in ensuring that Government is effective and accountable, efficient and transparent, Kenya’s best fortunes are well within our reach. I am persuaded, beyond any reasonable doubt, that we shall achieve transformation beyond our wildest dreams within this generation. As a leadership and as a people, we have a historic opportunity to preside over the greatest transformation and progress ever witnessed in our nation. Kenya is a nation of brave, hard-working, enterprising people who are determined to prevail in the struggle for economic freedom and win the race for prosperity. Great deeds will be accomplished whenever and wherever opportunity exists in a nation like ours. This is why the hard work that we have done is already showing the promise of abundant fruit. We have laid a firm foundation for rapid development, and Kenya is no longer “on your marks”. The state of our nation at this moment in time is “prepared, all set and ready to go”. Thank you. God bless you and God bless Kenya."
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