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    "id": 1161757,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1161757/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Yes. I was interested in that. I did not know that Mt. Kilimanjaro meant a hill that is difficult to climb in Kikamba. I knew about Chief Kivoi showing the missionaries the snow-capped mountain and said “Kinyaa”. I thought “Kinyaa” meant Kirinyaga because we call that area Kirinyaga but she has a different version. It is what they call a peacock. There are many examples of how things were named. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, part of my ancestry is traced at a place called Ikolomani. My grandfather would tell me that Ikolomani said in a Luhya accent was goldmine because there used to be gold there. The other side of my ancestry is from a place called Olgoria, where the original Sakajas’ come from in Kiligoris. That is in Maasailand. Olgoria means land of gold. So, there is a lot of gold in my blood. All these translations of words, the Great Corner to Dagoretti Corner, the carrier corps to Karioko and even what Ngara means is part of the history of our country. There are many other places that we now fondly refer to but many people do not know the origin and the entomology of how things have been named. I think there is need to preserve that and encourage our young people to understand these things because things have moved so fast. Every morning when I drop may kids to school, I normally wonder because I use the Museum Hill Road towards Thika Road. When you go up Museum Hill Road, there is a spot where we pass. Right at that spot, my mum had a kiosk when I was a child. Children can never understand that there was no road like that before. It just used to be a hill and right outside the museum we had a kiosk there. When you go down the roundabout, the nursery school I went to was there. I tell them that sometimes I used to leave that nursery school and go up to my mum’s kiosk to get a boiled egg but they cannot fathom because they do not know"
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