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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Maanzo",
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        "legal_name": "Maanzo Daniel Kitonga",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir. I said the information I have. This is feedback. M-pesa is not yet available to everybody. Other people have to use their relatives in order access the money. The point I am making is that we have to make older people comfortable. If we can come up with a better system, that will be good. There are quite several issues. The IEBC is key. Having an IEBC that is constituted with the interest of everybody at heart is important. I believe political parties are important tools when it comes to elections and politics. They must have their place and share. Most importantly, the whole nation should agree on a team where everybody feels comfortable when taking part in an election. There are quite several issues, which can be improved through the IEBC. Some of these require a referendum or a constitutional change which cannot be done by Parliament alone. It has to go back to the people, so that they determine how they want to be ruled and how some issues should be handled. Let me now move to fidelity to political parties. When you are elected on a certain political party, if you are not interested in serving under it, then you should resign so that we have a by-election. Unfortunately, we do not have a fully constituted IEBC. We lost a Member of the National Assembly. You can imagine what is happening there. There is the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF), oversight and many other duties. The MP for that particular constituency and several MCAs have not been replaced because there is no IEBC. When it comes to people's representation, we should be responsible enough so that we have an IEBC in place in order for the nation to have fair representation throughout. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to support what has been moved herein. I look forward to a healthy debate so that we give more ideas to enable this process be concluded to the benefit of the nation. I thank you."
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