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    "id": 756572,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/756572/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Adan Keynan Wehliye",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Eldas",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 41,
        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "Sometimes when I am reflecting on issues, I think we need a leader with dictatorial tendencies. If you look at the history of the countries that have outpaced us, for example, China, you realize that their politics is not the kind we experience here. For instance, after every election we have to be prepared because donors pull out and we close the stock exchange and the shilling drops. These things must come to an end. I just want us to reflect for a moment on the geopolitical history of all the neighbouring states. Kenya is the only lucky country because it has not gone through political turmoil and the quagmire of having a military coup. We need to thank God. We need to move. We need to graduate. That is why elections come and go. It is the electorate that decides who should represent them. They cannot be coerced or forced. The only thing we can do is to give them an enabling environment to vote. For those who are perpetrating violence, please, we have a country which must be protected. Theoretically we say we are the best country in the region, or we are the economic hub, security hub and the humanitarian hub. These tags can easily go away if we are not careful. I am talking in particular to the political class. That is why I want to urge our colleagues on the other side--- I was a senior Member of the other side in the last Parliament. It is about the wish of the people. Let us do whatever we do in line with our Constitution. That is why I said, we will not allow anybody to ascend to power through extra-legal or extra-constitutional means. We must all accept and submit to the will of the people as enshrined in the Constitution. This is the only way we can proudly say that we have---"
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