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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the point that I was coming to is that we must respect resilient parties. We came up with the NARC in 2002 and it took the imagination of the whole country. We brought President Kibaki into office and one Charity Ngilu took off with the party. She destroyed it and we had to look for another party to go to the next general elections. We came up with PNU and we got President Kibaki re-elected. As soon as we got into the Government, they forgot that it was a party and eventually, it was left to one George Saitoti, my distinguished close friend – God rest his soul in eternal peace. When it died, a man called Gideon Konchella pretended that he was fighting to lead the party. He was elected and a week later, wound up the party and walked away to URP. We must institutionalize parties, because if parties as institutions do not grow, then our democracy will not grow. We will have what the Waswahili call vuguvugu. Every election time, there is a vuguvugu. Sen. Kiraitu may next time abandon the mbus and form a rocket, so that---"
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