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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "South Imenti, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kathuri Murungi",
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    "content": "(c) the voters’ register as approved by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission.” (b) by deleting the words “this Act” appearing in subsection (3) and substituting therefor the words “subsection (2) (a)”; (c) by inserting the following new subsections immediately after subsection (4)— “(4A) A political party that intends to conduct political party nominations using its official register under subsection (2) (b) shall submit a copy of its official register to the Registrar at least fourteen days before the date of the nominations. (4B) The Registrar may make Regulations for the better carrying into effect the provisions of this section.” (d) by deleting subsection (5). I intend to expand on how to do party nominations. I have three options. However, we can have the nominations through a certified register of the members of a political party and then we can also have the political party’s official register. I do not know the reason we have party officials, some of whom we have in this House, and we are not confident that they can be having a thorough and clean register. I am, therefore, proposing that the party list, the same way Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah is proposing that party officials, who are a party organ, have their own register which can be used for nominations. As for No.3, I do not know what is changing this time around because we have been using the IEBC register since Independence. I do not know what is special in the 2022 elections. For sure, as many Members have put it, you will see so many causalities, some of whom are in this House in the 2022 elections. I am proposing that the IEBC register can also be used for nominations. Since 1963, we have been using that method. So, what is changing this time? I am telling the Members of the"
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