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    "id": 772934,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/772934/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity to make a contribution. This House knows very well that “harambee” is a rallying call to unity of purposes of development in our country. If you were to go into the etymology of the word, its origin and the way it has changed over time, all of us will come to agree that language is not static. It grows. I have before me a sign of the Coat of Arms; I see two lions and a cock. My biggest worry if you were to go into discussions about the use of the word “harambee,” a zoologist may just wake up the following morning and say the use of the lions discriminates against the other big five members in the forest. We will have no end to this kind of debate. To me, the only thing this petition does is to gives us an opportunity to affirm the use of the word “harambee” in our Coat of arms in Kenya. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in my other life I was an editor of a newspaper. There were stories that landed on my table. For some of those stories, if they were not going to be published in the newspapers, there were various ways of killing them. One, they would die naturally. The other way was that they would “commit” suicide and die on their own and the editor would decide this story should just die. It is the right of the petitioner to forward the petition to this House. However, in my opinion, we should not expend resources on a petition like this."
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