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    "id": 716738,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Billow",
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        "legal_name": "Billow Adan Kerrow",
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    "content": "Mr. Chairman, Sir, I have the greatest respect for my friend, Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., but I want to disagree and I want Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o to pay a bit of attention here because the definitions of complementary; there are two aspects of that clause that I think Members may have disregarded which will change the meaning of this completely. One is on the complementary aspect and the other is the bottom aspect of it. The word that you defined as complimentary is with an ‘I’. The complementary used here with an ‘e’ has a completely different meaning. I want to read the Oxford Dictionary of what this complementary with an ‘e’ means. It says, it is combining in such a way as to enhance or emphasize the qualities of each other. In another definition, it also says that it is combining in such a way as to enhance. In other words, the complementary used here is not taken in its abstract meaning. It means that there has to be a system there for which you are introducing something to complement. So, Mr. Chairman, Sir, it is not like you are disregarding what was there before. If this paragraph read that notwithstanding the provisions, a manual mechanism, then it is true. What they had said would make sense. But in this case, it says a complementary mechanism notwithstanding whatever is in Section 44, not a complementary. It means this mechanism is complementing what is there in Section 44. I think that point seems to have been disregarded in this Report. The second point to say is on the last bit. Why are we introducing a complementary mechanism for identification? It concludes that it is to ensure that the Commission complies with the provisions of Article 38. Article 38 is about giving those Kenyans the right to vote. That right to vote is expounded further in Article 83 which says that there has to be administrative arrangements for registration of voters and the conduct of elections shall be designed to facilitate and shall not deny an eligible citizen the right to vote. I gave examples here where if you do not provide for this exception, an old woman of 95 years was not able to vote and she requested for her finger to be chopped off because she did not want to lose an opportunity to vote. What is said here is that it The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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