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    "id": 470714,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the point is that in those initial days that Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale is talking about, if you look at Lincoln, they moved from the Republican, then to Democrats and so on. Those were the fluid days of the American democracy. Kenyans are now saying 50 years down the line, we are now maturing by giving ourselves a new Constitution that wants to create a greater foundation for political parties being owned by members. I am saying this with immense respect knowing that I am a Member of one of the youngest political parties in this country, which is also the third largest political party in the country. When we formed the United Republican Party (URP), one of the questions we asked ourselves was whether we should give that party a particular identity. Should we have certain policies that we are pushing for? If you look at the character and the support of URP in Kenya, one of the key issues is family values. It is very clear in our minds that we do not advocate for certain behaviours. We support the family as the integral foundation for governance in the country. For the good social relations of Kenyans, we believe that a man must marry a woman and vice-versa and not man to man or woman to woman. Those are the foundations we have in URP. We have no apologies to say that our support is basically founded on that and we stand for those family values. One of the integral issues of URP is to fight for marginalized groups."
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