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    "id": 786297,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/786297/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have engaged in street protests and we have ‘eaten’ teargas – just to use that word – we have seen death and we have buried people. We have also faced off with the police. Many things have happened and I hope that in the spirit of reconciliation, at some point we may get an apology for all the hardships that our people have gone through. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the County I represent, Homa Bay County – which is home to more than one million great men and women – decided that the elections that were scheduled for 26th October, 2017, were not going to take place. We shut down Homa Bay and no elections took place there; but as you heard Sen. Mwaura say, the people of Homa Bay have now come with open arms. They are saying that for too long, they have built walls and they now want to start building bridges in the spirit that has been set by His Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it will take more than just a handshake to erase all those things that we think have been done to us or the things that we have done to other people. However, there must be a beginning; young people say that it starts with a ‘tap.’ Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I share the aspirations of many young people or many young families in Kenya. For too long, they have been building walls. But they now just want bridges built so that they can get food, good jobs, live in peace; have systems that can work and have a country where things are predictable; from little things like traffic to school fees to the price of food. These are the bridges we must build and not the walls---"
}