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    "id": 592267,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/592267/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Chairperson of my committee, who is my great friend and a man of great respect does not seem to live in this country. On 29th September, 2015, a group of persons from the CORD Coalition sought to demonstrate and come and hand a petition to Parliament in relation to the tormenting and harassment ad infinitum of Sen. Johnstone Muthama. The group was repulsed with excessive force and could not be allowed to come to Parliament or beyond Electricity House around Bima House. On the same afternoon, and you could even take judicial notice of this, there was a noisy group of ladies at the gate. For more than one and a half hours to two hours, they were shouting obscenities against Sen. Muthama the whole afternoon. I even stood out there and saw some Members from the National Assembly addressing them and hurling equally unprintable obscenities against Sen. Muthama. If demonstrations, sit-ins, picketing and airing of views are guaranteed in the Constitution, why would the Government repulse one group and allow another to come and demonstrate at the gate of Parliament? Is it because they were demonstrating and insulting Sen. Muthama who is in the opposition or what was the exact reason that caused this to be done? Is the Government ready, willing and able to observe the constitutional provisions that guarantee Kenyans the right to demonstrate regardless of the message they want to pass or whoever they are demonstrating against?"
}