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    "id": 448083,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/448083/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "July 8, 2014 SENATE DEBATES 44 The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is a great musician from Jamaica called Jimmy Cliff who sang a record called “FoolishPride”. Those words are very relevant even today. Yesterday was an important day in this country. One can say what they want. I salute Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o for bringing this Motion to bring to the attention of this country the excesses, abuse of power and authority being exhibited by the Jubilee regime. When somebody stands up here and says the rally was a failure because there were no people, it reminds me of Chinua Achebe’s book called “The Trouble with Nigeria” where he says that “I recently talked to President Shehu Shagari and he said that: “Corruption in Nigeria has not reached endemic proportions.” He said that anybody who says such a thing is either a fool, a crook or does not live in Nigeria.” He went on to say that “I know Shagari is not a fool or a crook, therefore, he does not live in Nigeria”. Anybody who cares to listen, see, hear or read, knows that yesterday, from midnight of the previous day, all the surburbs of Nairobi were cordoned off by the police to distract people from coming out to attend the rally. It is a terrible shame. It is a derogation of the rights of the people of Kenya under the Constitution of the freedoms of movement, association and freedom to listen to the people they want. To crown it all---"
}