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    "id": 384578,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to second. As hon. Wako was speaking, I remembered something very important about this Motion; about the political culture of changing names and so on. After the change of Government in Uganda in 1986 and the coming in of the National Resistance Movement (NRM), all local authorities were called resistance councils. They were referred to RC1, RC2 and this went up to the top. In fact, they did away with the previous way of naming the local organizations. So, they became part and parcel of this political culture of the NRM which was resisting the old order. This made the ordinary peasants in the countryside realise that they were also part of the change. I urge the Committee to think very creatively on how to restructure our local governance and bring in new names. The word location is very colonial. This is where the natives are located. The words “village headman”, even on gender consideration, presumes that a woman will never head anything. Probably we should think about names of popular councils or something like that so that we come in with a new culture. At the moment, the only thing that is popular is the word “devolution.” However, we need to break down devolution to the local level so that all of us are---"
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