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    "id": 1426896,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Osotsi",
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        "legal_name": "Osotsi Godfrey Otieno",
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    "content": "unconstitutional because the Senate cannot be left out of a serious matter of delimitation of constituencies. I do not know where Sen. Omogeni was because he was a Member of the NADCO. We respect him as a senior council in this country. However, it is unfortunate that a mistake of this high magnitude was made without our representation noticing that the National Assembly should not have unilateral powers on matters of delimitation of boundaries of constituencies without involvement of the Senate. Madam Temporary Speaker, those are the few issues I wanted to raise about this Bill. The NADCO spirit must be adhered to. People went on the street and others died agitating for electoral justice. It is important for us to give them justice by ensuring that we pass this and any other law that has been brought to us. As we go on, it is also important that we look at other election-related laws and ensure that they are panel-beaten. As proposed by the Kriegler Commission, laws must be in place at least two years before election, so that we do not hurry amendments to laws and end up having elections done in a hurry with the challenges we have at the moment. With those few remarks, I support this Bill with amendments. I thank you."
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