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    "id": 267426,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/267426/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Keynan",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 41,
        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "I want to define a number of issues before I go to the contents of this. In today’s world, there is something called economic crime. Economic crime, by the UN definition says that “economic crime refers broadly to any non-violent crime resulting in financial loss”. Therefore, the second thing that we considered as a theory is indeed, whether what happened in Kenya during this period constitutes an economic crime against the people of Kenya, against the people of East Africa, against the people of Africa and against the people of the world. I say this because again we considered the eminence; the premierness of the nation of Kenya. About 67 per cent of the GDP of East Africa is that of Kenya. Kenya contributes 67 per cent of the GDP of the entire economies of the East African countries. To that extent, Kenya is an economic hub, a diplomatic hub, a premier nation. Therefore, having taken that into account and the important economic role Kenya plays within IGAD, the East African economic block, COMESA, the AU and within the UN as far as economic development is concerned, again, we realized that what happened; the issues that triggered, the issues that made Kenyans paupers and squatters in their own country and the issues that made many Kenyans leave, the simple reason is just because of the drastic decline of the"
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