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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dido",
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        "legal_name": "Col (Rtd) Ali Rasso Dido",
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    "content": "which has just ended. Those are some of the major things in the area of economic improvement and investment in Kenya. The just concluded Bills on elections provide a watershed in legislation in this country. There is a philosopher who said: ―The best can be the enemy of the good.‖ We must make good laws for our country because today we are in this House making laws. Tomorrow we are private citizens out there. The laws that we make here must stand good in the fullness of time. The problems of Kenya are about education, poverty, unemployment and the economy. But, the most contentious thing has always been the elections. When the elections come, there is a change of mood suddenly. Everything changes in Kenya. The investors want to run away and some Kenyans who have homes abroad want to leave the country. Kenyans have a lot of faith in the National Assembly or the Parliament of Kenya. We must provide leadership so that we have good elections that are just and fair. Elections that provide grounding that Kenya is not about elections, but should be about the frontiers of development and the economy in this region. On the issue of party hopping, one thing we have come to realise is that, if people have faith in their parties, then they cannot move away. Since 1945, the Americans have managed to have only two major parties. The British have two major parties. The third one is there, but it is a sort of a mongrel that will not win any elections. For that reason, if we have good parties that are grounded in democracy and the rule of law, this country can be stable. We can live for the future generations and hand over a country from one generation to the other. With those remarks, I thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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