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    "id": 1446300,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1446300/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "tell you, that our elections are conducted by IEBC. That is why you do not see lawyers going to court to file petitions because it is credible and it enjoys the confidence of the membership. I am looking forward to a day when my good friend, Secretary General of Central Organisation of Trade Unions (COTU), Mr. Francis Atwoli, will also be elected in a process overseen by IEBC. It is there in Chapter 6 of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010. If you are subject to an election, the Constitution says you should be elected in a transparent electoral process, but by sacred ballot. We do not want those things of 1988 of lining up. SACCOs are good. However, we need a mechanism where maybe counties will have an obligation to give seed money to our SACCOs. We give counties a lot of money that is embezzled. Governors get a lot of money and a lot of it goes to mandazi and kunywachai. We should put some austerity measures and say each county put aside some seed money to jump-start SACCOs. Why did we create counties if they cannot benefit our people? On traffic policemen, at a roadblock near my home in Metamayo, a police officer threw spikes on a motorcyclist. This guy hit the spikes at high speed, rolled and died. We now have motorcycles with registered number plates. A traffic offence is not a life and death issue. If this guy is committing a traffic offence by failing to stop, you do not throw a spike and cost a life. Prof. Patrick Lumumba Odhiambo (PLO) says that you do not respond to a mosquito bite with a hammer. I mean, the best you should do is take the registration number. I mean, these motorcycles are registered and there is now a proposal here to ensure that all of them are registered in a SACCO. Just take the registration number. Go after the guy, but costing a life by throwing a spike, I do not think is right. We are being extremely inhuman as a country. As I gear towards conclusion, I have looked at the number of offences that have been created in this Bill. I am of the view that there are too many. Then, you cannot fine a"
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