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    "id": 1426586,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for this opportunity. From the onset, I will only support this Bill on condition that we will do amendments. This Bill is part of the larger proposed Bills by the NADCO. It is unfortunate that it did not come out as some of us expected. Had they allowed me to present my Solomonic wisdom in the NADCO process, we would have had a better version. Now that it lacks some wisdom, I want to briefly inject it with the Koitalel wisdom by saying a few things. One, we should not be reactive to issues of elections and electoral laws. We have amended electoral laws until we have lost. When we were growing up, some of us who were at the bottom, we would wear a pair of short until we get two things that looked like torches on our buttocks. Our parents would do something on it by patching it up. Some of us who grew up in village primary schools, the pair of shorts would be patched up until you could not know its initial colour. This is what we have done to the electoral laws in this country. We always do it with the convenience of what we believe should be right. We have held this country at ransom. For example, the people of Banisa in Wajir County have not had an elected Member of Parliament (MP) after the death of their MP up to today. Also, in Tana River and Kakamega, we have lost Members of the County Assembly (MCAs). So, we have several wards and constituencies that do not have elected leaders. Under the Constitution, this is denying them the right to representation."
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