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    "id": 1165495,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1165495/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13131,
        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
        "slug": "johnson-arthur-sakaja"
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    "content": "Many of them are affectionate, you know. They describe who you are. For instance, “Baba or “Hustler” If today you say “Hustler”, everyone knows you are talking about His Excellency the Deputy President Dr. William Ruto. If you say “Baba”, they know you are talking about Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga. If you say the fifth, I do not know what people think you are talking about; it could be either of them. This is welcome, but it needs to be strengthened so that people do not abuse this. You do not want a situation where somebody in the Nairobi City County ballot says that his popular name is also Sakaja. You find two Sakaja’s on the ballot paper. You are using a name of another popular candidate to say that you have applied for that because it is your popular name and your opponent can choose somebody else to confuse voters. We need to be able to cure that mischief. The regulations that IEBC will put in place if this Bill is passed, should make it clear on what you can and what you cannot do. Any law in as much as it might be well intentioned is very easy to abuse. You can find somebody who goes ahead to abuse it. The crux of this - and Sen. (Eng.) Maina has said it - is that all our interventions when it comes to electoral laws are to facilitate the ease of the expression of the will of the people. That is a cardinal tenet of our Constitution. Article 1 and Article 2 state that the sovereignty of the people is expressed directly or through the elected representatives. The ability to allow Kenyans, out of their free will, to have an easier time at an election that is an aspiration of a democracy. That is something that we must always support. This will make it easier for people to identify who they know."
}