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    "id": 1378275,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Embakasi West, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mark Mwenje",
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        "legal_name": "George Theuri",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. First of all, let me take this opportunity to commend the team that did this Report, led by the Leader of the Majority Party and His Excellency Kalonzo Musyoka. I want to thank the President and the former Prime Minister, Raila Odinga for giving the country an opportunity to talk to one another. We have an opportunity to amend the Constitution through this Report. Through this Report, proper public participation was conducted where members of the public contributed. The reconstitution of the IEBC is very important. We need to hold by-elections very urgently but we need an IEBC that is respected in this country. There is the issue of boundaries review. In my constituency, there are two areas, namely; Uhuru and Tena that have always wanted their own wards. The position of Leader of the Opposition is welcome but it must be well resourced. I like it that the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Finance mentioned this matter. The Office of the Leader of Opposition should be independent and respected. It should not be a position to be given, and micromanaged, by the Executive. It must truly be a position that can bring proper opposition in our country. On the issue of staggered elections and senators serving different terms, I disagree with it. We will keep our country in perpetual campaign mode if we go that direction. If we will have elections after five years, and then someone else has their election after two or seven years, it will mean that we will be campaigning throughout. That is one thing that this Report is trying to cure. How can we manage elections and ensure that we finish with them and get back to the issue of building our country? On the issue of sanity of political parties, we need the Office of the Registrar of Political Parties to be restructured. Those of us who were in the Jubilee Party, and were elected through the Azimio Coalition were harassed and forced to exit the coalition that brought us to Parliament. Therefore, there must be sanity in political parties but it is also important that the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
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