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    "id": 1372071,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1372071/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Onyonka",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Onyonka Richard Momoima",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. It is a great pleasure to have an opportunity to contribute to such an insightful and, indeed, good Motion. One of the things I recommend and request my colleagues in this House is that any time we have something good, whether it is brought by Government or our side, please, let us listen to each other and try and look for a middle ground. In the west, they call it the bi-partisanship. It is the ability for us to look at what is good between us and as leaders, agree on the things that would benefit Kenyans most. If we find that there are things that we disagree on, they can then be put to the side and we kind of move along. This is because, sometimes, democracy is back and forth. The other issue is that I encourage my colleagues that, this thing we call democracy is not that the winner must take it all. Sometimes, it is a give and take. For an idea like this, it is necessary for us to initially start listening to the President when he makes his annual address to the Nation even if it means we listen to him for two days. I do not think there is a problem with that and neither would it worry many of us if we did it for two days. The other issue that I am looking forward to as a Senator in this House and a leader is that, for us, Members of the opposition, be given an opportunity to reconstitute"
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