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    "id": 1094847,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Rozaah Buyu",
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        "legal_name": "Rozaah Akinyi Buyu",
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    "content": "were not because there was too much favouritism. Because of that, this amendment was put in place. The list of members who are to be nominated should be put in place or lodged with the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) 45 days before the general election. It should be a closed list. That means that after a party lodges this list with the IEBC, nobody can open it. That was fair then, but from experience, it has turned out that that effort has locked out very many capable people who ought to have been nominated. We know that nominations target women, youth, and people living with disabilities (PLWDs) because they are considered to be the vulnerable groups in terms of an election contest. I speak from experience. In 2007, I contested for the Kisumu Town West parliamentary seat. I had a real political fight with my colleague Hon. Olago Aluoch. Despite the fact that I got thousands of votes, when the nomination list was out, I was not considered even though I had put up a strong political contest and showed that, indeed, I could be a strong politician."
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