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    "id": 1157946,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "Save for a few who have read this Bill, people are asking what could be Parliament up to, and why now? Unless the Mover explains with greater substance and solidity, the legislative gap we are sealing, it is not justifiable we move the way we are doing. We are being told that we should be dealing with transfer of voters. Even that to me is a very good provision and I would want to support it the way it is. Look at it this way: the voter registration and transfer closed on 28th of last month. None of it is going to be done in relation to this election. So, the question I am asking is: what is the hurry with whether people want to transfer or not? I support the provision. I am one of those who disagreed with the Committee on its proposed deletion so that we can have people registering where they know they should and if they are to move, then the reasons are prescribed. The issue is that voter registration process and voter transfer closed down on 28th of March. One can now not transfer. You now cannot register in preparation of the General Election. The question is: why the hurry in bothering whether people want to transfer and the parameter? That makes me think, though the provision is good, even that should wait. There are good provisions in the Bill, there are many provisions which are bad but there are other provisions we do not need to bother with as we approach and process this election. So I support this Bill but I request that at the Committee Stage, the Leader of the Majority Party looks at the Bill being moved by him as our leader in the House and only tasks Parliament with matters which are critical to this election, deleting other which are taking our time. We are very busy now. So, whenever we are here, we must engage the time of this Assembly of the nation on only those things without which we cannot have sound firm process."
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