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    "id": 572424,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/572424/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Krop Lonyangapuo",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I join my colleagues in congratulating Sen. Orengo for bringing this timely Motion, when we are about to have a visitor in town. This is a historic matter in the sense that for the very first time, a sitting President of the United States of America (USA) is coming to Kenya. We have even seen types of helicopters that have not been seen in Kenya before. Even the Kenya shilling has strengthened today by about Kshs3. We hope that as a result of the visit by President Obama, there will be an impact on the economy, even though the traffic on our roads will be affected. Madam Temporary Speaker, we need to learn lessons from this visit. One of the lessons is that Kenya has 54 political parties spread in the county assemblies, National Assembly and the Senate, while in America they have less than four political parties. No wonder, President Obama, who comes from a minority, could become President. If there were many political parties in the USA, he would have not have been President. This is a lesson that Kenyans must learn. We need to reduce our political parties to two or three, so that when one vies, he is seen as a member of a political party. We will also learn a lot from the technology that they will bring. For example, now the whole world is focusing on us because of this visit. We thought that the CNN knew where Kenya is. They are referring to Kenya as the “hotbed of terror”. This means that they do not know where Kenya is. For the very first time, all media Houses are The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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