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    "content": "of the Attorney-General and the CIOC to prepare the Bills. This does not absolve them from ensuring that Bills related to the IEBC are published. I am shocked to see that the Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs appearing to still be ambivalent on this matter. I want to ask the Executive to be more serious. This is not enough. They are saying that they are almost through with the Bills, yet there is still so much that has to pass through this House for us to implement the devolved governments. It is this Government that ought to put in place such systems. Unfortunately, they are unwilling to bring some Bills. For example, where are the Bills to sort out the Provincial Administration? Where are the Bills on education? With regard to education, for example, we are about to adjourn the debate and there are matters that touch on that. In this Bill, we are talking about matters that touch on continuous registration of voters. Although it is a constitutional provision that there should be continuous registration for practical purposes, at what stage will you stop it, so that you can inspect the voters register? What access do the voters have to the register to confirm that even the person who registered one week before voting has been captured? How do we know this? We are not saying anything about identity cards and registration of persons. These are definitely going to impact heavily on the voting. They can easily disenfranchise a very huge portion of our population in this country. Currently, identity cards are taking up to six months to come out and some up to one year. Some of them come with the wrong faces. Your names may be there but the face may belong to Dr. Boni Khalwale. There is a serious problem. Because of this, I would have preferred that we bring a Bill only to deal with the matter of the regulations. However, we have brought in much more than that. Unfortunately, we have to go through this in a hurry. The same Minister is busy thanking us even after we brought the Bill on 4th."
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