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    "id": 17435,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/17435/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 55,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Laboso",
    "speaker_title": "The Temporary Deputy Chairlady",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 63,
        "legal_name": "Joyce Cherono Laboso",
        "slug": "joyce-laboso"
    },
    "content": "That Section provides, in Subsection 3, that a person who is convicted of an offence under this Act shall not be eligible for election or nomination in an election under this Act for a period of five years, following the date of the conviction. The HANSARD shows that Ms. Karua spoke in support of an earlier amendment by Mr. Mbadi which sought to make the period of ineligibility to ten years. That amendment was, however, further amended and passed by this House on the Motion of the Minister for Lands, Mr. Orengo, reducing the period of ineligibility to five years. There was no amendment passed by this House to bar a person from Public Service for ten years, as Ms. Karua had alleged. It is, therefore, also not true that the penalty passed by this House was altered by persons outside this House."
}