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    "id": 1158743,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1158743/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ruaraka, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. T. J. Kajwang’",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2712,
        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
        "slug": "kajwang-tom-joseph-francis"
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    "content": "Of course, in Clause 3 there are issues of nomenclature that we have had to deal with to clean up the text. Clause 3 deals with the situation of Mariga in Kibra. Somebody knew there was a by-election and he could not register in that constituency, so he went to Ruaraka and got registered and because he is a registered voter, he goes to Kibra and says he must vote. That is Clause 5. We are saying that we have to find a solution. We read the law correctly in Section 5 of the parent Act. In fact, Mariga should not have happened. Section 5 of the parent Act, immediately there is a by-election, registration ceases in the whole country. That surprised me. Just because there is one by-election, there should be no registration during that by-election. So, Mariga should not have been allowed to register even wherever he went to enable him to go to Kibra. But at that time, it may have been an oversight on the part of the IEBC to have allowed Mariga to register. But again, that begs the question why a by-election in Kipipiri, for example, would be a hindrance to people in Kibra to continue registering, because that by-election only affects one electoral area. So, we have crafted a legislation which, therefore, ties it only to Kipipiri. If you are going to vie in Kipipiri in that affected area, then you must have registered there so as to participate; so that the Mariga issue will be solved."
}