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    "id": 1160333,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1160333/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "The Bill also seeks an amendment to bar what would be called clientism and gerrymandering voter transfers. I know the Committee has a different view on that but one of the amendments in this Bill is to require that for you to transfer to a new constituency, or to register in a different area from one you are in, you need to show you have a stake in that area so that we end this situation where, close to elections, I will go to my neighbouring constituency and pick all the people from my clan and transport them to my constituency so that they can vote for me. Immediately after that, they move back to their constituency. They will be going there asking for bursaries and all that from somebody they never voted for. They have no interest in Kipipiri, but they will come specifically to vote for me but, eventually, go back to Nakuru and other places where I transported them from. This denies the rightful people of Kipipiri their representation because their representative was actually voted for by outsiders. About two weeks ago, this House pronounced itself in terms of the other amendments. For a nominee to be nominated into the county assemblies, you must show you have an interest in that county assembly. Going by the same logic, I would hope that the House will also look at stopping this issue of voter mass movement around the voter transfers. I know the Committee has something to do with Article 38 and they will tell us on that."
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