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    "id": 550479,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sang",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Kipyego Sang",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, without taking much time, I share the concerns raised by Sen. Abdirahman. Opinion polls have been used many times to mislead the public. We know that towards the run up to the last general elections, many opinion polls were churned out giving different figures. You would find three different opinion polls giving totally different positions on the same issue. The most important thing if you were to do opinion polling would be to have the right questions. It is important that if you have to rank Senators, governors and Members of the National Assembly, it has to be based on their job descriptions. I would have expected that the first question of the pollster would be whether the respondent understands the role of a Senator. Based on that, they would then give us the percentage of the number of respondents who understand the role of a Senator and those who do not. After that, you would now focus on the ones who claim to understand and then ask them to state the roles of a Senator, then proceed to rank their Senator. Treating us to a popularity contest does not help. It is really unfortunate that a credible newspaper – now that we are made to understand that they are the ones who commissioned this poll – why did they not take time to give the pollster the exact questions that they wanted to rank the Senators on? The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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