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    "id": 27436,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/27436/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. M. Kilonzo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 47,
        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo",
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    "content": "As you remember, I was fighting for 50-50 and I lost. So, I support this idea. “(c) Fair representation of persons with disabilities. (d) Universal suffrage based on the aspirations for fair representation and equality of vote. (e) Free and fair elections which are:- (i) By secret ballot. (ii) Free from violence, intimidation, improper influence or corruption. (iii) Conducted by an independent body. (iv) Transparent. (v) Administered in an impartial, neutral, efficient, accurate and accountable manner.” So, I tell those who are used to participating in elections through corruption, violence and such things; your days are numbered! If this law is passed, you will have to be extremely careful because we have criminalized everything. In fact, in Clause No.27, it says:- “A person who directly or indirectly participates in any manner or public fundraising or harambee within eight months preceding a general election or during an election period or in any other case, shall be disqualified from contesting the election held during that election year or election period.” We make this recommendation without fear at all. We do not want anybody to think that merely because you are wealthy and, sometimes, it is not clear how your wealth came about; that you want to use it during an election year to go about using improper influence or corruption as outlawed by Article 81 of the Constitution. Similarly, in the offences that you will see we have put forth, the days of people who want to use their wealth are numbered. But even more significantly, the Bill gives the Commission powers to prosecute offences under this law. You will find that in Clause No.109."
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