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    "id": 797301,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/797301/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Gogo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Lilian Achieng Gogo",
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    "content": "Members of Parliament leave Parliament smiling from a speech that has been made by the President of the Republic of Kenya. I take this opportunity to thank the Rt. Hon. Raila Amollo Odinga and President Uhuru Kenyatta for showing leadership. You can never lead if you do not allow yourself to be led. Yesterday I heard, for the first time in the history of this country, a sitting President asking people for forgiveness. Often times, we think we look weak when we ask for forgiveness. Strength is found in meekness. I applaud the President for telling Kenyans to forgive him where he went wrong. Personally, I also want to take this golden opportunity to also, as a politician, ask for forgiveness for any of the factors or areas that we offended, as a coalition. The President’s Speech was very well articulated. For him to bring the Big Four Agenda to the House and talk to Members as a friend that he should be supported, it was a very noble idea. It is in this House we can come up with good policies and laws that are going to support the President’s dream. How I sympathise with naysayers. How I sympathise with people who cherish and flourish in doom. How I sympathise with people who want to sit in their couches and see Kenyan youth die because of politics. That is now behind us; we want development. With this handshake, that is now behind us I am only empathising with myself and a few of my colleagues because we missed out on the handshake. As the President was leaving the House, he went shaking hands of people whose hands he has been shaking all along. He went ahead and only shook the hands of his friends and colleagues who strategically positioned themselves to greet the President. He ought to have greeted new hands. He ought to have shaken other hands that he has never shaken before. All the same, we are looking forward to a day when His Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta will come and step in Rangwe Constituency where he has never come to since he was born because of the handshake. I am hoping, praying and waiting for the day they are going to come with the Rt. Hon. Raila Amollo Odinga, the people’s President, to Rangwe Constituency so that this handshake can be devolved; this handshake can go to the ground. That is so that people of Rangwe who never participated in the general election of 26th November 2017 can shake the hand of the President, give him their blessings and tell him: “Sir, we love you. We are going to support your Big Four Agenda.” As an MP for Rangwe Constituency, I must mainstream all my proposals to support the Big Four Agenda of the President. It is important we go back to the basic human needs. We are talking about housing and food. As we talk about the Big Four that cover manufacturing, Rangwe has had a proposal to have a pineapple factory for a while. We have already put aside and fenced the land for this use. How I pray that the Rt. Hon. Raila Amolo Odinga and His Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta can come and launch this pineapple factory. I also wish they could devolve the handshake to make the mother of Akinyi and Adhiambo get water. If we could have women not deliver on the way, this would be good for Kenya."
}