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    "id": 1165494,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1165494/?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, my friend and follower in the University of Nairobi who is Paul Ongili and many people do not know him by that name. If the name is on the ballot paper, he can lose votes because people know him as Babu Owino. I may, for instance, wish to be called super governor. Today, if you say “super Senator”, every Kenyan knows who you are talking about. In as much as I know, in the rural areas some try to use that name. If I say super governor, they already know whom I am talking about if I just put up a billboard. Instead of that laborious process, what Sen. (Eng.) Maina is proposing is good. We have discussed it in the Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee. You apply to the IEBC; they have a committee that looks at what is reasonable. They should not give you a name that gives you undue advantage. For instance, I can say that I want my name to be changed to governor, so that when someone goes to the ballot of Nairobi City County and just sees governor they vote ‘no.’ You should not have names that are not what has become nicknames. We do not give ourselves these names. I did not start to call myself “super senator”. A group of young people started and it just caught on. Sometimes it very weird to call yourself such a name because it will sound as if you are boasting. It has caught on and you accept it. I do not know what Sen. Farhiya’s nickname is. However, if she has one, it is something that people gave to her."
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