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    "id": 268175,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kajwang",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for Immigration and Registration of Persons",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Gerald Otieno Kajwang",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank hon. Mbadi for the information. Let me go to one other matter. It is not our job to enrich the report of the IEBC; it is our job to check whether the IEBC acted within the law. If they acted within the law, we accept and if they acted outside the law, we reject. That is our job. It is not our job to come here and become another IEBC. Why did we even create that independent Commission if our intention was to actually do it here? Now that the report is here, let me say one little thing that made me stand up. They went to Homa Bay County, Mbita Constituency, which had no problem. We accepted the wards, the boundaries, we love the name, we have had the name for the last 48 years and all of a sudden they just suggested that now Mbita Constituency will hence be known as Suba North, from nowhere. Then when I check where the Suba North comes from, I find that it is actually an ethnic name; a tribal name that sits very badly with more than two thirds of Mbita Constituency, which is cosmopolitan. Then I ask: Where did we get this idea that constituencies must have tribal names? Actually, tribal names in constituencies which are cosmopolitan suggest that certain clans or certain ethnic groups oppress others who may be minorities. I urge that an amendment be made to return the name to Mbita Constituency. We are proud of that name, it is unifying us, it has been there since Independence and we did not suggest a change. I support."
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