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    "id": 317625,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/317625/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wamalwa",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 148,
        "legal_name": "Eugene Ludovic Wamalwa",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, although the Independence Boundaries and Electoral Commission (IEBC) is an independent institution under Section 26 of the IEBC Act, that same section requires that the IEBC must allow public participation and it must consult all stakeholders though it is independent. And though it has powers under Section 109 of the Elections Act to make these regulations, it must, as of necessity, allow public participation. There was a serious public outcry and my office received very many calls. I also received a petition from persons with disabilities who had serious issues with the high and prohibitive fees proposed in terms of nominations. I also received many calls from particularly the youth but amongst all that I received was one from a young man called Philemon Rono from Bomet County. He wrote to me and said he is a student leader at the Kenyatta University (KU) and that he wishes to contest in the next General Elections. He will be graduating but he believes that after he leaves the university, he will not be able to raise the prohibitive fees that have been put in these regulations but most importantly he has been required to clear his Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) loan before he vies as a candidate in the next General Elections."
}