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    "id": 41249,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/41249/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Lands",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I had started by making a confession that, initially, I had those misgivings. But I have since then seen that in the presentation of the Budget Speech, there was concern about the plight of the Kenyan people. That is what I started with. But I know you enjoy seeing me talk and so on. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was just making the point that we have one year or even less, depending on when we are going to have elections. We are living on borrowed time. In this one year or so, let us be seen to be moving Kenya forward. Already there are signs out there that we have tried to do the best. If you look at the infrastructure and the entire constitutional making process, no nation can come up with the number of things that we are doing at the same time, including all these Bills. We may be impatient with each other but, if you go to other countries, for a country to move forward the way we are moving--- Nominations are going on with the Parliamentary Committee having its meetings and other Bills are being discussed in all the other fora. It shows that, indeed, we can chew gum and walk at the same time. That shows that Kenya has come of age. We are a mature democracy, if we would want to put it that way. But we need to have constant vigilance. We should not just be prepared to live by our laurels. It is not good to think about where we have come from. That is because whenever you think about where you have come from, you may think that you are coming from an abyss and so, your target may not be very high. I think we should be thinking of where we want to take Kenya. If we are thinking about the Kenya that we want, I think all the politics of the day will be put aside, so that we can move together as a nation. All of us have been brought here as one Parliament and any law that is passed in this Parliament will not bear the imprints of any particular person. It will be an Act of this Tenth Parliament. Anything"
}