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    "id": 388881,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/388881/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, why are we where we are and why did we invite the international community to come to Kenya? The Mover of the Motion at one point rightly said that it was the bad behaviour of the political class; I agree with him. He also said that we have a new Constitution in Kenya; and I agree with him. He also said that we have attempted to reform our institutions; I agree with him on that one also. But the big question is: Do we have reformed Kenyans? The same political class that put us where we are is the same political class we have today! I do not want to engage in finger pointing and name calling, unlike what my colleagues did, but I want to point out that as a country, we must be careful of how we conduct our affairs. The dignity that is staked of a country is dependent on how you stand by what you do. If you sign an international treaty and the next day, through rehearsed choruses, you stand up and you want to abrogate that treaty; if a new government comes into office and all of a sudden, a Minister, through excitement, suspends and cancels all licenses given to investors, then what message are we sending to the world? What is the value of our word as a country? What is the value of our word as a Government? What is the value of our act as a country? Who is going to sit down, even as we look for international loans, to sign on pen and paper with a country that simply wakes up and says “I signed that treaty in error and, therefore, I abrogate it?” It is a very dangerous move that we are trying to take. Mr. Speaker, Sir, maji yakimwagika hayazoleki is a Swahili saying. The case of the President, the Deputy President and Mr. Sang are unfortunately there; you cannot reverse it! They, themselves, have graciously said that they will co-operate, and they are co-operating. Now, those cases are fait accompli ; why are we trying to pull out of a situation and a process that served as a deterrent? Look at the introduction of multipartysm in Kenya, people were slaughtered like chicken in 1992/1993. In 1997, people were killed; in 2002, people died---"
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