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    "id": 19468,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. Karua",
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        "legal_name": "Martha Wangari Karua",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, while supporting the point of order by the Member for Garsen, I also want to state that I went through the Election Act and what struck me--- I must first say that I have not as meticulously as the Member of Garsen compared the various copies. However, having been a Member of the Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee (CIOC) and having been a Member of the sub- committee that prepared the amendments to this Act, the penalties for offences related to elections are not the same penalties we proposed. Particularly missing is the additional penalty that after serving a three year jail term, a person will not be eligible to be employed in the Public Service for ten years. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am urging that this particular Act be scrutinized thoroughly against the HANSARD so that it reveals many other errors which appear to be a deliberate scheme to alter the contents of the Act. I am saying that all the Bills we passed during that period now become suspect because we do not know which Bill has been passed as it was and which is not authentic. I am, therefore, urging that the House does scrutinize all the Bills passed during that season when we were doing things in a hurry, against the contents of the HANSARD. Otherwise, the integrity of the legislative process of this House has greatly been undermined. To restore that confidence, we need to be sure that each of those Bills is the one we passed and not somebody else’s’ imagination."
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