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    "id": 1094844,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Isiolo North, KPP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Hassan Hulufo",
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        "legal_name": "Hassan Oda Hulufo",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is important that we retain the law that regulates the submission of the party list as it is, if the parties are serious. In the past, most political parties expressed seriousness in terms of submitting lists of individuals who have ended up being nominated to this House and have added value to parties, the National Assembly and also the county assemblies. We have cases like Justice Njoki Ndung’u. We know her track record and what she has left behind. We have Senator Sakaja. He was nominated by The National Alliance (TNA), and we know the kind of contributions he made in terms of legislation for the specific interest group he was representing, which was the youth. Hon. Amina Abdalla has been mentioned and so on and so forth. Listening to my colleagues who are supporting this amendment Bill, the intention seems to be to reward those who have contested and lost. It is not right. If I had contested and lost before, I would have declined if any party offered me a nomination after I have lost. It is not right. Ideally, if you contest, you do so in a specific geographical constituency. It could be a constituency in any county in the North, in Nairobi, in Western and so on and so forth. Ideally, a nomination is supposed to take care of people who are not able to win, but have special skills, have passionately served their parties, the parties have recognised their professional service and as a result of that, they have been suggested and put on the party list. If we go by what is proposed, that is what we will lose. It is on the basis of that that I oppose this amendment Bill. Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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