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    "id": 1105101,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1105101/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support the Report of the Committee on Delegated Legislation to annul in its entirety the contribution and spending limits for political parties and candidates for the purposes of the 2022 General Elections in the draft Election Campaign Financing Regulations. It is very unfortunate that although Article 88(4)(i) of the Constitution gives the IEBC the mandate to regulate the amount of money that might be spent by candidates and political parties, the IEBC decided to take this matter very casually and disregarded the law. For this House not to be blamed by either the civil society or many other quarters, this Committee, in my opinion, rejected and annulled these Regulations based on four key parameters. The first one is public participation. The second one is failure by the IEBC to observe the timeline provided. The third one was to put the cart before the horse in publishing the gazette notice before the approval of the House. The last principle is the very many embarrassing errors that I have seen in the Report. Article 10 of the Constitution gives us national values and principles that make it clear that public participation is the core and the framers of our Constitution put it as a central pillar that the people of Kenya, at all levels, must be consulted before any law is made. Did the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) consult or did they throw a coin in the air and decide how much a Member of Parliament for Garissa Township will spend? We are not even sure who they consulted when they said that a presidential candidate can spend Ksh4 billion in a presidential election. Clearly, the IEBC, both in their appearance and submission to the Committee, did not conduct any public participation. As a result, the spending limits must fall flat in the face of the law because of not conducting public participation. I am sure one of the reasons why the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) also fell flat is because of lack of public participation."
}