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    "id": 1015765,
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    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Millie Odhiambo",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "not my mouth. Having said that, let me take the opportunity to support the recommendations by the Committee for the following reasons. One, definitely because of the gender balance which is a reason that we are here and maybe those who are not very happy with the advisory would be happy to know that there is an order from the court to suspend temporarily the advisory. I would also want to say that from what the Committee has presented, those who have been picked have competence and the only challenge is that they have their work cut out for them. Members have indicated some people, but I saw even from the advisory yesterday, were stuck at the word “shall”. Our work will not be cut out on the word “shall”, but on the word “deemed” because the greatest work that has been a challenge for all the registrars, if you look at Section 12(v) of the Political Parties Act, is the persons who will be deemed to have left their political parties. Like today, I have seen a Member of a party who is standing very nicely with a candidate in Msambweni, who is an independent candidate and my party is not sponsoring an independent candidate, as soon as she is confirmed, we will be asking her to deem that member not a member of our political party and having lost. So, her work will be cut out from the word “deemed”."
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