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    "id": 228993,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/228993/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Miriti",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Trade and Industry",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Petkay Shem Nkiria Miriti",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Before the House rose, I had just observed that there is remarkable economic growth in the country despite the fact that there have been unwarranted criticisms from various quarters, including limousine-driving spendthrifts. I had also mentioned that there is a lot of noise in the countryside from people who call themselves aspiring candidates, yet the time for campaigns has not started. There are people who have been campaigning for the last four years and they continue to do so. I think we need to regulate campaigns in this country, because people have disrupted the working of the nation. People have distracted our people from nation-building in the name of campaign rallies, yet we do not know whether they are actual aspirants or political quacks. It has become very common in this country for people, when they fear that they might lose in their constituencies, to declare themselves Presidential candidates. They have always used that excuse to go round cheating their people that they will be elected by Kenyans. I do not know whether it is the Chair that will give the ruling or the Electoral Commission of Kenya, that until such time that elections are declared, people should not move around the country calling themselves candidates. March 28, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 201 We now have Presidential candidates, Parliamentary candidates, and all over the country there is a lot of noise and people are not working."
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