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    "id": 572819,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/572819/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 447,
        "legal_name": "John Krop Lonyangapuo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I also rise to support the Motion for Adjournment. Kenyans learned a big lesson. For the very first time, we saw true leadership that has been born out of democracy and recognizes talent. It will take a miracle for people from minor tribes to be presidents if we go the way we are going today. Americans identified leadership because they trimmed their political parties to two or three and then people had to choose which party to belong to according to the ideals that had been planned. Today, in Kenya, we have 54 parties. Some communities will have to wait until Christ comes. Even if they have a genius of a kind, they will never become president of this country. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we need to copy America. As Parliament, let us see if we can come up with a law that will compel all of us to come up with two or three parties and forget about these others that are normally created for people to go to State House. After five years, they cease to operate. In the end, you do not know what you believe in. As young as President Obama was he became a member of the Democratic Party in USA. Americans did not look at the colour of his skin, but what was in his heart. We should go that direction. We have such talent in Kenya. I saw a man with a big heart and vision. He spoke from his heart. This Senate stands for what I saw. When we were elected in 2013, the resemblance of the best came from the counties and they are here. When a lot of frustration comes our way because of the small fights between the two Houses and interference from the Executive, let us keep the focus and aim to dismantle some of the things that stop us from being strong. For example, we need to trim our political parties, allow Kenyans to vote for them and then grow in them. With that direction, we will never have tribalism anywhere because we will now have two or three “tribes” called political parties. That is the way we should go. We have no option to do so. I have seen it in Rwanda where there are two or three parties ---"
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