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    "id": 1443105,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13162,
        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "We saw what happened in our neighbouring country, Uganda. They came up with laws that limited the rights and freedoms of persons of that orientation. Uganda has now been denied funding. The Speaker of the Assembly in Uganda is being hounded out of office. She cannot even travel. We do not want the double standards of neocolonialists and we pray that the Gen Zs in America will do the right thing. The arrogance that we have displayed as a leadership and the tribalism that we have been expressing and calling it shareholding, shareholding is nothing when it comes to national politics. It is pure tribalism. It is ethnic jingoism. It is ethnic chauvinism. We were talking here with Sen. Omtatah, asking ourselves why do you need a voter’s card when you already have a national Identification Card (ID). That has been the system in this country to dischenfrachise certain parts of this country. We have been around through electoral processes and we know that the registration of voters is the step for rigging of elections. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I ask the Senate Majority Leader and Senate Minority Leader that in that Motion, we should push to ensure that in this country, once you have a national ID card, you automatically become a voter. This is because I have heard the arrogant politicians, the ones who voted ‘yes’ to the Finance Bill, say that Gen Zs will not take them anywhere because they are not registered as voters. Once you are a citizen, you have a right to vote. We should not introduce additional bureaucracies in the name of registration of voters. The last time we did that exercise, this country spent Kshs7 billion on biometric voter registration equipment. Those are the areas where we could make savings. If we could take that Kshs7 billion that I am sure the IEBC is going to ask for another round of voter registration, that amount of money can take care of doctors and the JSS teachers. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have annoyed the Gen Zs by our fake religious fab. There religious fundamentalism in this country where we go to churches and then say that the persons we vanquished are children of a lesser God, that the victors are the ones who pray to the true God. However, today the Gen Zs have told us that the voice of the youth is the voice of God."
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