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    "content": "Therefore, to assume that you would put the same status as a party like ODM, Ford-Kenya or Jubilee will be defeating the tenets and principals of what is independent. Once you come together and say that this is the group that is entitled to this because they are all independent, then you are assuming that the independents are of one mind and same spirit. That assumption is very dangerous because everyone contested independently. They did not want to be associated with the others. Be that as it may, in this election, the Report captures that none of them presented the signatures required which is over 1,000. Most importantly, even when you do the calculations as per the law of allocation of the nine seats or use the rules as they are, it cannot enable independent candidates to be elected to the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA). Therefore, we should quickly prepare ourselves. The Report is very clear. The process has gone well. We should be ready to come here and have an election. There is a warning that must be presented. A lot of civic education starts from today. There are two ballot papers that will be given. There will be a ballot paper written NASA with 11 candidates. In every NASA ballot paper, one will be required to tick four people. If one picks five, then it will be a spoilt vote. I can tell you that without proper civic education, there will be many spoilt votes out of the 416 votes. You will have another ballot paper in a different colour for Jubilee. I hope it will be red or something of that sort. That will depend on the how the returning officers here will present them. The ballot paper will have 14 names. One is required to only tick five. If one ticks six that will be a spoilt ballot paper. Enough civic education starts now. Even though in the rules we have said that you may as well tick three or four out of the five because you may not like the remaining, however, if you exceed the five required for Jubilee or you exceed the four required for the NASA coalition, that becomes a spoilt vote. I hope that through this discussion that we are having here and in the National Assembly, Members will start getting acquainted with the process. I hope that political parties will guide their Members as to who they are fronting. By law, we need 15 people. We are free to vote for the 15 people from Jubilee and the 11 people from NASA but it will not be easy for anyone to win. If it is left to free choice of the 416 Members of Parliament, it will be difficult to imagine who will emerge as No.1. This is because it is a list. One can say that out of the 11 people, the first one will get 70, 80 or 100 votes. The other one can get 50 and so on. It will be a tight race unless there is political intervention in the middle of it, you cannot imagine - You will be in NASA side but your fate is determined by your colleagues in the Jubilee side. You will be in the Jubilee side but your fate is still going to be determined by voting Members in the NASA side. This is a very interesting exercise that we are going to do next week. However, it is important because when the people leave here, they will not leave as NASA or Jubilee but as Members of Parliament representing the best interests of the country in the East Africa Community (EAC). The EAC is faced with many relationship challenges. You must have heard that some chicken were burnt in Tanzania. Some livestock were confiscated and auctioned despite the fact that the Masaai’s of Kenya and those of Tanzania are one people. They The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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