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    "id": 282686,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/282686/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
    "speaker_title": "The Prime Minister",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Raila Amolo Odinga",
        "slug": "raila-odinga"
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    "content": "If I were to be an architect of ethnic balkanization, I would never see the Floor of this House. I have never been elected on the basis of the votes from one ethnic community in the constituency that I represent. However, when ethnic drums are sounded, Kenyans become very shocked. Kenyans know when the ethnic drums are beaten. Recently, they heard them being beaten in Limuru. A group of people from a few ethnic communities went to a meeting and said: “We will elect you. We have already said that you are our candidate. But go and tell us in which party you are going to stand.” That runs against multiparty democracy. This is because we vote on the basis of the ideologies that the political party represents. However, if I come and say that because you are a member of my ethnic community you are my candidate but tell me on which party you will run, these are intellectuals who are taking this country 30 years backwards."
}