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    "id": 390506,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/390506/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. G. G. Kariuki",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Godfrey Gitahi Kariuki",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I have been thinking of not contributing to this Motion but having thought twice, I think I should say something about it. We have a history of political parties in this country and that is why we landed in this area of contribution from the Government to support political parties. We have to ask ourselves, if people support your ideology and they support what you think is good for the country or people understand that ideology, they will contribute money and you can survive without government contribution, but this displayed nothing but weakness of Kenyan politics where we have to depend on the Government to keep our political parties. This is most unfortunate because we started political parties because of a certain purpose. People had the idea of achieving certain objectives. The Kenya African National Union (KANU) started because they wanted to throw out white people from this country. That situation was fully supported by all the Kenyans. Therefore, they were able to contribute money from their pockets and yet there was no money those days. We went on and on, and the issue of people contributing almost came to an end. It was now left to the individual politicians. That is where we The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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