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    "speaker_name": "February 14, 2018 SENATE DEBATES 11 Sen. (Prof.) Ekal",
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    "content": "Thank you Mr. Speaker, Sir. This is getting interesting. The debate has gone to different directions and we are all having a good time of Laughter. On a serious note, I thought that being one of the senior Members of this House, I should be one of the top ones to be given the opportunity to speak in keeping with the African tradition of older ones getting the first share. The reason is that when I get to speak, like now, other Members will have already stolen my ideas and spoken well. It is turning out that this was a coincidence. The word “halambe” became “Harambe” which is somehow connected with some Hindu word that means “praise Ambe”. So, we do not have to spend a lot of time debating it anymore because the hon. Senator of Mombasa has made that clear. It is true as the hon. Member said that words can have the same spelling without having the same meaning. While my last name is Imana which means little garden in Turkana language, in a language spoken in Rwanda, it means god. Therefore, we cannot spend time arguing whether Imana - god - is sitting here or in Rwanda. We have to go for the meaning that is specific for us, in this case, if we want to correct harambe, we can do so in our usage then use the word halambe which cannot be confused with what the Hindu use. It could be interesting if we investigated how this word got into our vocabulary in the first place. Was there some Hindu influence into us using that word? The way the Hon. Member of Mombasa County has explained, it was some kind of mispronunciation, the word “halambe” was pronounced as “harambe”. We do not have to spend a lot of time on this because we are not referring to the Hindu meaning but to the Swahili meaning. Thank you."
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