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    "id": 273079,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mututho",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 97,
        "legal_name": "John Michael Njenga Mututho",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the cardinal thing in this particular Bill is to disclose totally who is financing the opinion poll. The science behind it is well founded in current software in computers and other areas. Accuracy also would not be an issue. But who is sponsoring and for what reason is a really serious issue. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), having found that there is a big lacuna in the opinion polls, decided to do their own regulations. So, it is so critical to them and the media at large. It affects the public to the extent that the BBC today, would not carry out any opinion polls unless they follow certain guidelines. I support what hon. Ekwee said; no pollsters will report anything a whole one week before the elections. That way, there is no likelihood of influencing certain results. The other aspect of it is that we should have hefty fines for people who decide to work from their bedroom, come and falsify results and then the following morning, they call a big Press conference. The media should be informed that we are not talking about gagging it. The media will continue reporting as accurately as possible as per the pollsters. But the pollsters themselves must be bound by regulations, so that they are accurate. They must disclose the size of the sample, who the financier of the polls is, and his or her intents. I support."
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