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    "id": 157198,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/157198/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Munya",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for East African Community",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Konzolo Munyao",
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    "content": "You will find citizens uprooting a railway line, sabotaging an economy and the police supervise them as they commit that crime. It is a very worrying trend that needs to be arrested. The country is slowly developing into lawlessness and despondency. Labour Day where Kenyan leaders are gathered to listen to their workers and to celebrate the contribution of the workers of this country to the economy and to their country, when the Minister is making a speech, you see hooligans throwing stones at him purporting to be protesting. Protest is good; it is important. We have protected it in our Constitution. There is a difference between protest, demonstration and breaking the law. This worrying trend, if it is not arrested, all the gains that we have been talking about, even the entire issue of multiparty democracy that we have fought for, for many years will be endangered. In fact, the entire entity that we call Kenyan will be endangered if the Government does not take the rule of law seriously. I am saying this especially where you see a situation where you have a Coalition Government that is shaky; one that is pulling apart and not working together. In that situation, things even get worse. If only there was stability in the Government, then Kenyans would, at least, have some hope. That is why we are seeing a lot of despondency. People are unhappy across the country because they are not seeing things moving in the direction they are moving."
}