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    "id": 1209683,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Osotsi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Osotsi Godfrey Otieno",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity to also make my comments on this important Bill. Election is the greatest risk to this country. Because of that, colleague Senators, this House has been known to be a House of reason. It has been known to be a House that engages in a bi-partisan arrangement whenever we have a matter of importance like this. I ask that we exercise that today by looking at this matter objectively and thinking about the nation and not whichever side we are in. I have looked at the amendments proposed by the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights. I agree with Sen. Sifuna that the process of conducting elections is a political process, and that process must be done with the stakeholders in mind. Regarding the one position for the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC), I want to suggest that we enhance it to two positions so that the Majority side has one slot and the Minority side has one slot. That position we will get it from the Public Service Commission. Actually, there is no need for the Public Service Commission which conducts the interviews to again be given a slot. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have also looked at the two positions which have been given to the Religious Council and I think we need to be very clear. We should say that there should be either one Muslim or one Christian representative because there is no legislation that establishes the Religious Council. A lot has been said on the issue of the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) but I think it is discriminatory to always give the LSK a position. What about the engineers, the teachers or the ICT people like me? I think it is discriminatory and in any case, we can"
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