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    "id": 776500,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/776500/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wakhungu",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1889,
        "legal_name": "Chrisantus Wamalwa Wakhungu",
        "slug": "chrisantus-wamalwa-wakhungu"
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    "content": "Martin Luther King Junior said that in the end we will not remember the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends. I was so worried when I saw this petition. I thought the Jubilee Coalition was revisiting the Supreme Court’s ruling of the presidential petition. However, the Leader of the Majority Party has confirmed today that Jubilee was not revisiting the Supreme Court’s ruling of the presidential petition which I am so happy about. Article 119 of the Constitution says that every Kenyan has a right to petition Parliament to consider any matter within its authority including to enact, amend or repeal any legislation. It is high time we legislated on this. We must come up with a law that will operationalise that Article. It is not very good to leave it the way it is for people to come and abuse that right. Such petitions can lead to anarchy. I am happy you have ruled the way you have. The Leader of the Majority Party said that we must have some mechanisms and a framework of levels. This matter should not have reached this level. Kenyans were very worried. They thought that the revisiting of the Supreme Court’s ruling of the presidential election had become a reality."
}