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    "id": 1160338,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1160338/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "I mentioned the issue of voter movement and I do not want to go through that again. I know it is a point having read the Committee Report. I know there are issues about Article 38 and giving a person the right to vie and a voter the right to choose a person of their choice. However, I think we also need to look at the bigger public interest - why people are being elected in to Parliament to represent the rights of people within those defined constituencies. Like I said, my worry which I think is the worry of IEBC and other stakeholders is: If half of the voters were to migrate just before the election into a constituency for purposes of voting a specific person and then go back to their constituency, it denies the rightful ordinary residents of that constituency their fair representation. I am sure the lawyers in the House will guide us. The fact that we will have rights should not interfere with the rights of others. So, it is important, much as you look at the individual rights of a person to elect a person of their choice, let this House also look at how we can protect the rights of the ordinary residents in a constituency from being interfered with by people who have just come in for purposes of voting a person and then they move out."
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