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    "id": 1165484,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1165484/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Maina",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ephraim Mwangi Maina",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I beg to move that the Elections (Amendment) (No.3) Bill (Senate Bills No. 48 of 2021) be now read a Second Time. This Bill has taken much of the life of this House. I moved this Bill because I considered it important for the adequacy of elections and democracy in this country. The Bill simply seeks to allow members to use what I have referred to in the Bill as popular name. People carry all kinds of names in this country. Wananchi give you names and they know and refer to you as such. Then you have the Identity Card (ID) number which you might have been given. Some of us were given IDs when we were in colonial primary schools. You would go to a church, get baptized and be given another name which you would be known with henceforth. Over the years, you may have a popular name that you use and people refer to you using that name. Now, there is difficulty in law today when you want to use the name which wananchi know. In democracy, people should be given the easiest and simplest way to express their wish. Anybody wishing to vote for another person, should be provided with the name that wananchi know. Madam Temporary Speaker, wananchi may know you as Johnny Walker and you are called Michael John in your ID."
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