{"count":1608389,"next":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=155319","previous":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=155317","results":[{"id":1571372,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1571372/?format=json","text_counter":211,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Dadaab, WDM","speaker_title":"Hon. Farah Maalim","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to weigh in on this Motion. I want to thank the gracious good lady, Hon. Faith, for sponsoring this good and timely Motion."},{"id":1571373,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1571373/?format=json","text_counter":212,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Dadaab, WDM","speaker_title":"Hon. Farah Maalim","speaker":null,"content":"In our 70 years of colonialism, the colonialists who came to our continent and country removed our resources for their own benefit. They took our fellow Africans as slaves in the western hemisphere and Europe. Many people do not know that Europe was also built by African slaves before they even went to America. They did that for centuries. Then they came to colonise us, and did the same thing. For us, they had what they called the railway line. It was to have a railway from Mombasa to Uganda, which was a pearl of Africa at that time. The idea was to take agricultural and all other resources, and also use us as cheap labour. The expectation was that after we fought for and won our Independence, the narrative would change, and we would have development geared towards developing the country."},{"id":1571374,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1571374/?format=json","text_counter":213,"type":"scene","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"(Hon. Wanami Wamboka and Hon. Antoney Kibagendi consulted loudly.)"},{"id":1571375,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1571375/?format=json","text_counter":214,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Dadaab, WDM","speaker_title":"Hon. Farah Maalim","speaker":null,"content":"Hon. Temporary Speaker, can you protect me from Hon. Wamboka and Hon. Kibagendi? They are consulting very loudly. Within a year of being independent from 1964, we became a Republic, and then in 1965 we had the Sessional Paper No.10, which followed exactly the script of the white settlers and colonists. It again concentrated development on areas that are supposed to be of high potential. That is why, although being at a level above that of Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, and Hong Kong at the time of Independence, today their economies are probably 50, 60 or 80 times as powerful as our economies because we failed. We failed to change the narrative and think The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."},{"id":1571376,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1571376/?format=json","text_counter":215,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Dadaab, WDM","speaker_title":"Hon. Farah Maalim","speaker":null,"content":"globally within our own country, and begin utilising our resources from one corner of the country to the other. That was also pretty much driven by the divide-and-rule political culture that was established by the colonists. For the colonists to rule our countries in the manner they ruled, without that unified, and also to forestall the possibility of a unified African resistance to their colonialism, they divided the people. They had tribal lands, trust, and whatever. They divided our people along ethnic lines. The new independent African countries also picked up the same narrative and ran with it. They concentrated development only within certain selected areas. In the process, they also became the new lords. I am talking about the political elite."},{"id":1571377,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1571377/?format=json","text_counter":216,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. David Ochieng’","speaker_title":"The Temporary Speaker","speaker":null,"content":" You were in the same class as Hon. Adan Keynan?"},{"id":1571378,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1571378/?format=json","text_counter":217,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Dadaab, WDM","speaker_title":"Hon. Farah Maalim","speaker":null,"content":" Who?"},{"id":1571379,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1571379/?format=json","text_counter":218,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. David Ochieng’","speaker_title":"The Temporary Speaker","speaker":null,"content":" Were you in the same history class as him?"},{"id":1571380,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1571380/?format=json","text_counter":219,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Dadaab, WDM","speaker_title":"Hon. Farah Maalim","speaker":null,"content":" Who is that?"},{"id":1571381,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1571381/?format=json","text_counter":220,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. David Ochieng’","speaker_title":"The Temporary Speaker","speaker":null,"content":" Hon. Adan here."}]}