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    "id": 1110123,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1110123/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I listened attentively to the young Sen. Ngugi making his Maiden Speech. I am happy to hear his eloquence, vision and intention to serve the people of this country. I join you in congratulating Sen. Ngugi, now a distinguished Senator of this House, on his nomination to replace yet another very likable and illustrious young Senator, Sen. Prengei. He was a friend of everybody. As Chinua Achebe says, a young man who washes his hands is likely to eat with elders. He has come to wash his hands before the Senate. He is likely to eat with elders; not to eat food, but knowledge. This is a House of knowledge, reason and sobriety. This is a House where nobody shouts at the other; people sit and reason. Sen. Ngugi has joined a House of veterans. People like Sen. Orengo, yours truly and others have been around for a little while. It is not by historical accident, but by sheer hard work. I encourage him, now that he has been given the baptism of taste of power meant for the highest level. You can be nominated from the ‘Lower House’ and graduate to the ‘Upper House’ like my distinguished nephew. Sen. Ngugi has started from the"
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