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    "id": 1165504,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "“hustler”, “Baba” or “Kirinyaga”. At the end of the day, that is what voters will identify with. We know several politicians whose real names we do not know. As Madam Temporary Speaker, you have rightly put the voters and the people know them through their nicknames that they have acquired over time, for example, wamashati and Wamatangi. When you ask, they say it was maybe somebody who was donating tanks and they decided to call him Wamatangi. Sen. (Eng.) Maina has come up with a brilliant idea, especially to the political class. It will help the voters not to get confused when they are voting because they will know who they are voting for. Personally, I added my name in my identification card. If I was just to be called by my two first names without the third one, people would get confused at the ballot. I thank Sen. (Eng.) Maina for coming up with this amendment so that it becomes easy for identity when the voters are voting. Secondly, I hope and agree that as Krieggler Report had said initially, let us fastrack some of these electoral amendments because time is running out. We have six months to the general elections. Yesterday we had an amendment on the issue of degree requirement and today we are having this by Sen. (Eng.) Maina on the issue of the names one can use on the ballot paper. It is a practice that has been done in the past. Any person who wants to run for office does not need to do a deed poll, to change name or to apply with the registrar of persons or through the identification process."
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