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    "content": "Amolo Odinga has always participated and has been in the forefront in shaping the politics of this country and setting the political agenda. We are all aware of the hotly contested General Election of 2007, 2013 and the most recent one of 2017 and their resultant outcomes. However, I do not want to dwell much into what has happened in those elections because we all know and probably, it may not be appropriate to revive them at this point and time. In 2002, when the Opposition united under the former President His Excellency Mwai Kibaki to gain power from the then ruling party, Kenya African National Unity (KANU) - and Hon. Speaker, I am sure you were part of KANU - the country was actually very optimistic of a rebirth. Indeed, the victory of National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) in that year set the country back to recovery path which saw the economy resuscitated. Investor confidence was very high in 2003 and Kenya was actually rated the most optimistic country in that particular year. However, this has been dipping every election year in which we have been having challenges. Hon. Speaker, the stable political transition in 2002 generated considerable goodwill from the international community. By the end of 2008, the international donors had signaled their intention to resume normal flows to Kenya which had been stopped. Economic growth rose in that particular year of 2003 to 1.4 per cent from a meagre 1.1 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). However, under the Economic Recovery Strategy (ERS) which was launched in June 2003, economic policy was re-oriented to stimulate growth. This saw the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rise steadily in growth from a rate of 1.4 per cent as I have just mentioned in 2003 to 6.9 per cent four years later in 2007. After the disputed general elections in 2007, again the GDP dropped drastically to only 0.2 per cent in 2008. We want to take the nation back on the track of prosperity. This is what we had in mind."
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