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    "id": 197994,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/197994/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Nanok",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Turkana South",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Josephat Koli Nanok",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. My name is Josephat Nanok, Member for Turkana South Constituency. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do fully support the Speech made by His Excellency hon. Mwai Kibaki and the comments that hon. Members have made in this House. In my submission, I intend not to repeat them, but to add more or less some issues that had not been mentioned for the record. This is, indeed, a sensitive period in our history and transition, particularly with regard to March 12, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 131 what happened in the last two months. We realise that old wounds that have been existing in the last four decades have come up. They were triggered particularly by the post-election violence. Some of those wounds remain wounds and they have not yet been healed. The Tenth Parliament and the National Grand Coalition has the opportunity to address these issues. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, governance and constitutional issues have been with us since Independence. Land issues, as has been mentioned by my colleagues, have also been with us. The issues of banditry and chronic violence that have affected most of the Arid and Semi-Arid Land (ASAL) areas of the country are"
}