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    "id": 826451,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/826451/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 241,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13331,
        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
        "slug": "wilberforce-ojiambo-oundo-2"
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    "content": ". We look back with nostalgia to when we had to become a member of KANU to even get an identity card. We look back with a lot of fond memories to when we would riot in the university and would be chased home where we would first pledge our loyalty to the members of KANU in our constituencies or sub-locations before we got clearance letters to return to university. It has been worthwhile, the fight in the 1990s to change the Constitution and delete Section 2A so that we could have political pluralism. Unlike before when you would be hauled before the KANU disciplinary committee, expelled and you lose your seat, nowadays you have options because you can chose to join the most important party, ODM or choose to join new parties that keep on coming up every election year so that you can contest a political seat. It is important that we appreciate Article 91 of the Constitution that basically sets the principles guiding political parties. I urge all political parties, Kenyans and the Executive to take cognisance of the provisions of that particular article so that they appreciate the importance of political parties in our constitutional dispensation. Political parties are the vehicles through which we express our political views and come together to seek solutions to a myriad of problems that affect this country. I, therefore, urge the Executive to seriously facilitate political parties. We have had this debate in many forums about the inability or the obvious sense of sabotage by the Executive towards political parties."
}