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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Twaha",
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        "legal_name": "Yasin Fahim Twaha",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Bill and I will be brief. I am concerned about the fact that the Electoral Commission will be given power to arrest. There have been incidences in the past where the Returning Officers are compromised and they practice criminal and unjust practices in the conduct of the elections, biased towards one candidate. If you award them powers to arrest and prosecute, what happens when a member of the public complains? He might get upset because this guy is being unfair, and he may get arrested and thrown in jail. There is danger there. So, there is need for the Minister to clean up these few paragraphs. We should bestow the prosecutorial and arrest powers – and rightly so – upon the police, who will be independent, or do away with them altogether."
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