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    "id": 1105098,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emuhaya, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Omboko Milemba",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Omboko Milemba",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this chance to make my contribution to this particular Report and, at the outset, supports it. When this matter came up and was hot in the air at that particular time, it looked like Parliament was, in one way or another, not willing to enact these Regulations and this created an atmosphere that sounded like, in one way or another, Parliament is unwilling or it will be favoured if it did not pass these Regulations, but that was not true. From the Report, it is now very clear that there were certain omissions that were either done deliberately or not deliberately. For instance, the issue of public participation should now come up clearly to the public and the Kenyans so that, as we go out to the field there, never again shall we be addressed as people who did not want to enact these Regulations and that there was no public participation. Even the IEBC itself attempted to bring the public participation report that had been done in 2016; meaning that this was an unfaithful way of trying to deal with Parliament. Therefore, they should be rebuked for this and they must take note where they are that this is not the way to run the affairs of the people and hence that was not proper. Secondly, on the issue of the expenditure and other finances related to these Regulations, the IEBC did not put into account that the price consumer index of both goods and services had changed since five years ago. In 2016, the price consumer index was different from what it is now and, therefore, if you base that or whatever tenets they were using to determine the amounts that would be used in every constituency… I remember in my own constituency of Emuhaya, it was put at Kshs5 million or something like that. Now, with the changed consumer price index and the prices of goods, this cannot suffice and, therefore, these Regulations are null and void. That is not limited to the fact that, again, in terms of the procedure that these Regulations were to be introduced in this particular House, they completely missed to meet the timelines that are required The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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