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    "id": 317626,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/317626/?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",
        "slug": "eugene-wamalwa"
    },
    "content": "Under Article 38 of our Constitution, in the political rights enshrined thereunder, there must not be any undue restrictions so as to prevent any Kenyan, including Philemon Rono, from participating in the upcoming historic elections. Such undue restrictions will include high nomination fees as have been included in these regulations and if the HELB is to ask the young man to clear his loan before he has even tarmacked or got a job, he will have been blocked from the next General Elections. These are some of the issues that we require now with the amendment to Section 109 that instead of six months, we should allow for four months. This would give us two months to include the public input. The Committee’s work on this document and the public input will also be taken on board. Through public participation, I believe we will give this country a better set of regulations that will not only regulate the coming elections but all future elections. They must be good regulations. Elections are very sensitive matters and if anything goes wrong because, perhaps, we have hurried the process and given regulations that are not tenable, we will be held responsible as a House that passed those regulations. I want to thank Committee members"
}