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    "id": 407499,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/407499/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "independence, about 50 years ago, the economy of this country was as big, if not bigger than, that of the Asian Tigers, that is Indonesia, Singapore, Korea and others. While the economy of the Asian Tigers has grown several times over, ours has virtually stagnated. You look at the case of Singapore, in 25 years the GDP per capita grew from a meager US$400 to over US$12,000, that is monumental. Hon. Speaker, this country has a lot of promise, but the promise of Kenya has been held back by our continuous refusal to pursue and tenuously embrace national reality. This year, we are going to celebrate 50 years of independence. However, even as we do so, the depravity and degradation in certain parts of this country is really appalling. In 1992 and 1997 this country went through tribal clashes which coincided with the elections that were held in those years. After realizing that there was need to do something, this country set up what was then called the Akiwumi Commission. In my view, the Akiwumi Commission did a good job and if we had embraced that Report--- For me, the Akiwumi Commission provided a chance for us, as a country, to undertake national SWOT analysis to know where we had come from, where we were, where we were going and the mistakes that had been made."
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