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    "id": 928100,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/928100/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Igembe North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Maoka Maore",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Richard Maore Maoka",
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    "content": "I want to ask my colleagues that we navigate over these murky waters. We have a responsibility as leaders. We are here to legislate and not to run away from legislation or to wish a withdrawal of an initiative. Let us amend the initiative. Let us tighten it up. Let us bring on board the ideas we have. We have the numbers and the brains to discern upon civilised discourse on what is right for this country. At the moment, what is not right is to assume that we are having no problem at the IEBC. It is a crisis. This is a Bill that should have come earlier to address this crisis. Now that it has come, let us, as a House, reflect and treat this matter with the urgency it deserves. The only way to do it is to learn how to go through a challenge like this one. When you have a challenge, if you swim downstream, you are doing nothing because even a corpse can do it. So, you swim upstream. This is one such moment. I want to ask Members to recollect themselves to think of how we should get out of the crisis and not to run away or postpone it. We should not wish it away because any attempt to oppose this initiative is wishing it away. Members have choreographed “I oppose, I oppose” even without knowing the details of what they are opposing."
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