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    "id": 1158747,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ruaraka, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. T. J. Kajwang’",
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        "id": 2712,
        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": "I am the one who understands the question of mass voter movement, because this is an urban problem. In Ruaraka, somebody may decide – and K.J. will tell you that because this is an urban area next to the other; and because K.J. has been blessed as he usually is with some little money in his pocket – that all members from Ruaraka want to troop to his constituency just to benefit from the little that he has. As soon as that process is done, they run again to the other side to the NG-CDF, looking for an opportunity for KJ to sign something or the other. This is a worrying trend in Kenya. You find that as the Leader of the Majority Party said, decisions which are made in that constituency are not made by people who live or who have interest there. Fair enough, Leader of the Majority Party, we agree. But my concern is that the Constitution is supreme than all the other issues that I see. I want to understand the policy decisions that the IEBC is bringing. I can see the mischief correctly, but how do they want to approach it? In the Bill we have, they are saying that you should be ordinarily a resident; you should be carrying on business, you should be employed or you should possess land or residential building. Surely, if you come to Ruaraka, you are literally abusing the people of Ruaraka. How do you expect somebody in those beautiful cartons that we have as houses to start saying “I have to be employed”? Who in Ruaraka is employed? Who is responsible for the unemployment in Ruaraka? Then you say the person should have possessed land. Which land should I possess in Ruaraka? Who should be responsible? He says that the people should have tenants. Yes, you can add that. You see, the Hon. Leader of the Majority Party lives in Karen. If The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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