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    "id": 850535,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/850535/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 273,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiharu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ndindi Nyoro",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13370,
        "legal_name": "Samson Ndindi Nyoro",
        "slug": "samson-ndindi-nyoro"
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    "content": "Going through this Report and looking at the Kenyan situation now, we need to do much on voter education. After five years, we go to the ballot. We need to ask ourselves this critical question: When we go to the ballot, what do the voters vote for? I am talking about this as far as the presidency is concerned. We will be lying to ourselves by thinking that because we have the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) that is allocated a huge budget, our democracy functions properly. In a country like ours that is grossly divided into ethnic lines, and into tribal lines, I do not think we have a functional democracy. The current voter goes to the ballot not to elect a leader of merit or quality, this is the truth especially in reference to the presidency, but to elect their tribesmen. When we advance that in this Republic, most times we will err and we will not get the best people because when we put tribe before merit, we are bound not to elect the best leadership for our country. I may not be talking about the current situation because we have one of the best presidents. If we give a level playing ground that guarantees everyone, no matter where they come from, that they can be elected to the highest office, and when we consider merit to go before our other subjective thoughts, we will get the best and our country will ultimately grow."
}