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    "id": 1165511,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1165511/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13219,
        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
        "slug": "erick-okongo-mogeni"
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, there are people who have acquired names that you can never change. Anytime I go to Nyamira and I rise to support my presidential candidate Eng. Raila Amollo Odinga, nobody calls him engineer. They tell me we are for “ Baba ”. We want to pass this Bill like yesterday so that when we go to the ballot, we can have “ Baba ” on the ballot. There are people associated with other things. You can have somebody in the ballot and they have their popular name as “wheelbarrow” so that Kenyans can choose between ‘ Baba’ and ‘wheelbarrow’. They can look for the popular name that resonates with people. This is something we want to pass. In Nyamira, I have my nickname. When I was vying for elections last time, I was moving around in ‘akala’ and so I was nicknamed “Otero”. One time I took the Senator for Kericho, Sen. Cheruiyot, to Nyamira for a function and he was surprised when he heard people calling me ‘Otero’. So, I want this Bill passed like yesterday so that I can also add the name ‘Otero’ to my name so that when people go to the ballot they can pick my name out. This is a very good that we need to process quickly so that as we go to the 2022 elections, the popular name for the Senator for Nyeri will be on the ballot. I congratulate you because you are the seniors we look up to. This is something that will go down to the annals of history when people in future will be running for elective seats using their popular names. The country will remember that this is an amendment that was moved by the then Senator for Nyeri County."
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