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    "id": 224594,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. G.G. Kariuki",
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        "legal_name": "Godfrey Gitahi Kariuki",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I would like to continue by looking at Clause 15(i) regarding the obtaining of more than 250 members. The people of this country have been crying for freedom and human rights. We are talking of amending the Constitution, yet we are now going back again in the same cage and pretending that we are free. I think we are happy slaves. The chain of colonialism and dictatorship is being taken away from us but we are going back to chain ourselves. What a shame! I think hon. Members and the people of this country should be given their rights. Being a member of a political party is not a crime. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if I want to form a political party with my 250 people, that party should be let to become a political party. Who is to stop me from declaring it a political party? Let me form my own political party and let the people reject it. No Government or any other dictatorial agency should come in. As a person with experience, I would like to tell hon. Members never to allow any other dictatorship from any corner. For example, who is going to say, \"no\" to the Hummer in Luo land? Who would dare say that? He will never come back here! Is that what we really want; that, somebody in Central Province can decide, for example, that Mr. G.G. Kariuki is not a Kikuyu and, therefore, cannot be elected?"
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