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    "id": 296899,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Transport",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
        "slug": "amos-kimunya"
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    "content": "Now, if you look at Article 29, it says: The person who nominates a presidential, parliamentary, county governor and county assembly candidates shall be registered members of the candidate’s political party. Now, for IEBC to confirm that the people who are nominating you are members of your political party, they need to have that list before the nomination takes place. What hon. Baiya is attempting to do is, first of all, to remove that the list will be given before nominations. That is to say the list will be given before the election. Now, two months before the election will be nomination time. At that point, IEBC, by the time they receive the nominations, will have no idea whether you are being nominated by members of a political party. The reason I want to bring this is this: We went through this process last time round and we sat with all the interested parties. We had the public participation that was required. It became very clear that the Constitution itself says that an independent candidate--- Nobody can stand as an independent candidate unless he has not been a member of a political party for three months. Now, how will the Registrar or the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) know that an independent candidate has not been a member for three months when they have not been having that information? The three months period before nomination was picked from the Constitution. It was brought into the Elections Act to facilitate the IEBC to have a credible election by them comparing that you have been a member or not a member of a political party because they have the register. So, let us not pass this amendment because it will contradict Section 29 of the Constitution. I would really urge hon. Njoroge Baiya being the Chair of the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee to consider withdrawing his amendment."
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