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    "id": 1155417,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1155417/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ruaraka, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. T.J. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": " I realise that I have to explain many of these things because when we sat the other time many Members sought for explanation. So, I will be as brief as I can and try to capture the mood of the House. Clause 3 has to do with what we saw in Kibra, in the Mariga case, in which although he was not a registered voter in the affected electoral area, he contested in the Kibra by-election. It was a very untidy way of doing things. We also have to have a way through which to standardise the process. If, for example, in the unlikely event that there is a by-election in Kipipiri, voters from Ruaraka should not stop registering just because there is a by-election in Kipipiri. So, when we add those words, they are supposed to insulate that kind of issue. This relates to parts (a), (b) and (d). Part (c) is as in the Order Paper. It is not a big issue. Of course, there is no valid passport, a passport is a passport. It has to be genuine and valid for it to be a passport. However, we are for abundance of caution that it should be a valid passport. This is on behalf of the people in the diaspora, whose passports have expired for one reason or the other. These people vote at the embassies and we need to be clear that they need to have renewed their passports for them to vote. This is the justification for clause 3."
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