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    "id": 641886,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/641886/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gumbo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "As we amend the Act governing political parties, all the efforts that we are making towards amending this Act should be to strengthen multi-party democracy and not to weaken it because of the gains that we have made over the years. There was a time I saw a comment in the papers that, as a country, we seem to be the only society which seems to believe that you can progress by walking backwards. Some of the actions we have been taking even within our political parties are based on intolerance. We need to give people the latitude to express themselves, especially those who have divergent opinions. It does not necessarily mean that they do not want to see the course for which the political party stands for. Sometimes, it should be seen as an opportunity to have an alternative look at how things are done. If all of us in this world were speaking, dressing, talking and doing things in the same way, where would be the diversity that we seek? Sometimes, you are contradicted merely because the position that you hold does not seem to be in tandem with the position that someone else holds. Let us strengthen our political parties and entrench democracy in our country because it can only be good for this country. During the Committee of the whole House, I will propose some amendments not for the purpose of diluting the growth of democracy in our country, but for the purpose of entrenching democracy so that people can be free to choose within the realms of the democratic space that we have fought so hard to create. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, with those remarks, even as the Member for Dagoretti South harasses me through latency, I beg to support."
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