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    "id": 1106063,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1106063/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1046,
        "legal_name": "Kithure Kindiki",
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    "content": "The voting rights are critical for Kenyans in diaspora. I agree with Senior Counsel, Sen. Omogeni, when he said that the IEBC has just started piloting the issue of voting rights. I think in the last election Kenyans were able to vote in two polling stations in the US and one in South Africa. That makes a mockery of the whole process. The USA is a large country, which has a span of six-hour time difference from East to West Coast. If you then have two polling stations, one in Washington DC and other in Los Angeles, that can only be looked at as a pilot. You cannot claim to have enabled Kenyans in America to vote. The same way, South Africa is a large country right from the border with Swaziland and Zimbabwe, all the way to where the Atlantic meets the Indian Ocean in the Cape point. When you set up one polling station in Pretoria, it is impossible for someone to drive from Stellenbosch or Cape Town, which is 2,300 kilometers, to come to vote in Pretoria in the north. Madam Temporary Speaker, there is need to streamline voting rights as we go into the 2022 General Elections. There is need to establish more missions because we do not have enough missions abroad. Kenya needs to establish new missions in new places and frontiers, which can only mean new opportunities for Kenyans living abroad. This is so that we do not just stick to the traditional places such as United States of America (USA), United Kingdom and such other places. We should establish missions in small island nations, which are in need of services. From my personal experience before I joined politics, as an academician just like you Madam Chairperson, had the privilege to travel to nearly 100 countries in 12 years,"
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