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    "id": 665811,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/665811/?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": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I join my colleagues in condemning the barbaric manner in which these legislators were arrested. These are people’s representatives. They were mishandled. In fact, Hon. Junet was arrested as if he was a criminal number one. The number of policemen that we saw surrounding that building was higher than the number that you saw going to the Westgate Mall when there was a terrorist attack. We, as a nation have taken things too far. We should allow people to express themselves, but within limits. Going to the extent of using force in such scenarios really is painting ourselves in bad light as a nation. Secondly, our children watch television.The movies they watch were exhibited live yesterday. This is not a military State; therefore, whatever we saw yesterday would be abnormal. Last year, I was also taken through the same procedure, but not as worse as this one. You are supposed to be summoned and then you offer yourself. These MPs would not have disappeared. In the same vein, before we speak and make any utterances, let us carry the nation on board and not run into tribal enclaves whenever such incidences occur. Let us not wait when elections are around the corner and then we start knocking the door ---"
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