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    "id": 760134,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/760134/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "October 11, 2017 SENATE DEBATES 40 Sen. Ndwiga",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, first, I want to laud our Members who sat in the Committee for representing us very well. Afterwards, they have also expounded the merits of this Bill in the House. Because of limited time, I do not wish to repeat what has been said by my colleagues, but I wish to say the following. One, if we imagine that people are in the streets because of this Bill or the IEBC, we are missing something. Long before the election of 8th August, 2017, some of us warned that since some people knew that they would not win any election, they would not accept the results. Even if elections are held in December, January or whatever time, there is no way that these people will win any election. Therefore, let us stop courting them to come to the House. They will still come because they need their salaries. As a House and country, we need to realize that the objective of these demonstrations we see in the streets is not about these elections, but to divide this country; they want to secede. Let us not be blind to the facts that our colleagues out there have subtly said that for as long as the country remains the same, they will never ever win any election. They did taste a bit of power during the ‘ nusu mkate’ Government and that has gotten into them. They still want to be in Government by any means. I think it is imperative for us, as a nation and House, to get---"
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