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    "id": 755918,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/755918/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ledama Olekina",
    "speaker_title": "The Senator for Narok County",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Let me first begin by congratulating you for being elected the Speaker. It can be an exciting period of time working with you, having been a governor before. Secondly, I would like to thank the Maasai of Narok for having overwhelmingly voted for me. I was actually one of the few people who were voted by the Maasai people. It is quite sad that in this country we are so tribal. We talk about security yet we all know by referring back to the President’s Address that most of the Maasai children in Laikipia County are not going to school. We know that the people of Narok County have a lot of issues to deal with. We have a lot of problems on the issue of Mau Forest. I want to assure my colleagues that those things are dear to me. I will try and make sure that I advance them. As I speak here today, I am so privileged. I am from a very small ethnic group. We are only 5,000 of us. However, the people of Narok County, especially the Masai people, decided not to look at the small number of votes that we, as the Eldamat Community, have. They voted for me with over 122,000 votes that enabled me to defeat the Jubilee candidate by over 40,000 votes. That is something that is very good. I look up to a period in this country where we will steer away from these two issues that I have---"
}