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    "id": 927772,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/927772/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugenya, MDG",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Ochieng’",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
        "slug": "david-ouma-ochieng"
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    "content": "Before I go far, I want to say that politicians should stay off the census exercise that is coming. Our job in the census is to avail ourselves to be counted, but not to start managing numbers before we do the census. We should not front numbers and say that as a certain group of people, we are many and we have given birth to more children than others. We do not know the number of people in the country and that is why we are doing the census. The last census that was run in this country had problems. It was contested and we have been banding numbers around without having any official records. I want to request again the politicians to keep off this exercise, so that the technocrats at KNBS can do their work in a serious, technical and unbiased manner so that we can plan with numbers that are not manufactured. You probably know that between this year and 2024, we will do a boundary review in this country. One of the main features in a boundary review is numbers. To help us review boundaries without problems, the integrity of the numbers that we get in the various parts of this country will be very important. It is only in Kenya where people contest numbers. If you are undertaking a scientific exercise of counting people and you are told that these are the numbers that have come out, why would someone imagine going to court to contest numbers which do not lie?"
}