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    "id": 641882,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/641882/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Thank you for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Bill. As I do that, it is important for us, as a country, to go down the memory lane so as to understand the path that we have walked into, making Kenya a multiparty democracy. That is recognized in our Constitution. It is one that we must defend. As we do that, concern must be exercised. Some of us were not active participants in the second liberation not because we did not want to, but probably because we had not become of age to participate in it. Some of us were still in school at that time. One of the reasons as to why there was so much agitation for multiparty democracy in Kenya was to give political space to all the actors, so that we could have the ultimate freedom of thought. If you stifle freedom of thought then, in essence, you are stifling progress in society. Concern has been raised that, to some extent, there seems to be emerging a culture of intolerance even within the units that we have now. That is perhaps why my good friend, Hon. (Dr.) Musimba saw it fit not to identify himself with any political party."
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