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    "id": 1166420,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have skimmed through the tabled Report and I have realized that at the end of the Report, the Committee is proposing no amendments to the Bill as submitted from the National Assembly. In that regard, there were strong issues that were raised by the Registrar of Political Parties and the Independent and Electoral Boundaries Commission (IEBC) that are also captured in the report, and when they appeared before the Committee, that I would have wished and thought to persuade the Committee to come with amendments. Now that the Committee did not consider amendments and a number of us have amendments to the Bill, I would like to request you to give us the period of time within which we should file the amendments with your office to enable us to prepare ourselves for the Third Reading. The last thing if you may allow me with your permission, I tabled a Bill which has even more urgency than the Political Parties Amendment Bill, which is about qualifications of candidates to run for office. That Bill was removing requirements for academic qualifications for Members county assembly and Parliament for those who are seeking office. Particularly, we had a similar amendment with Sen. Olekina, which also captures Members of Parliament who do not have a degree at the moment and who are now being told after being in Parliament for 10 to 20 years; that they do not qualify to run for office by virtue of not having a degree. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not know how long your office and the Office of the Speaker of the National Assembly is going to take for this Bill to be debated. It may pass"
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