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    "id": 1480896,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1480896/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13165,
        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Offences (Amendment) (No.2) Bill (Senate Bills No.28 of 2024). We wanted to speak specifically to offences and that is why we kept it separate from the other Bill. Clause 1, is the Short Title of the Bill and Clause 2 provides – “that it shall be an offence for members of staff of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to conduct or hold an election in an ungazzetted polling station.” You remember the very big dispute we had in the 2017 Petition, Raila Odinga versus Uhuru Kenyatta, about un-gazzetted polling stations and the debate about it. It was at that time that we insisted on the need for an entire gazettement of polling stations and it being prominently displayed. Further, the Clause creates offences for members of staff of the Commission who unreasonably delay in declaring elections results or knowingly alter declared election results. You know the dispute that we have had and there is a history to this. Those that have seen the sunshine more times than I, like Sen. (Dr.) Oburu, will tell you the journey that the country has travelled. It was not unusual back in the days of KANU and the"
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