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    "id": 930414,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/930414/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Wajir West, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ahmed Kolosh",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Kolosh Mohamed",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. The Statistics (Amendment) Bill has come at a good time when the country is expected to conduct its census that is done once in every 10 years. I want to be on record that, generally, I support the Bill although there are specific areas in the Bill that must be attended to during the Committee of the whole House stage. We will push for that to happen. The population of Kenya is counted every 10 years with the assumption that the population growth will be at the same rate. Since the dynamics and situations in different areas are different from what we had last time in 2013, the Minister in charge of statistics then, talked of the exponential population growth in certain areas. That was only seen after data was collected from those areas. I want, at this point and time, to urge the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics to be forthright and ensure that they count every citizen and every person who lives in this country, so that the data we have is not only accurate, but is not subject to smoothening and abuse that comes after the actual data has been collected. At this point in time, I say that the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics must do its job so that they have no reason in future to question what they have done. Thank you."
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