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    "id": 328092,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/328092/?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 Chairlady, may I begin by saying I second this proposal. I want to really appreciate what the Chair and her team have done, first of all, by bringing the two documents together so that we have one set of regulations guiding both the registration of Kenyans within Kenya and outside our borders. This is to ensure that when we are talking about registration of Kenyan citizens as voters, it should include all Kenyans, whether in the diaspora or here. We want to agree with the Committee’s proposal that we introduce a New Part VII A that will now bring the issue of registration of Kenyan citizens residing outside Kenya within the ambit of these same regulations. I just want to appreciate also the proposals that have been made to ensure that Kenyans who are outside Kenya are not left outside or are also part of the historic election that is coming. Just this afternoon, I was talking to a lady who runs a radio in Boston and she said Kenyans outside want to be registered as voters. They want to be told where they will register. They want to be told what they will need to be registered with; whether it will be their passports or whether they have national identity cards. All this has been provided for in this Part VII. This shows that once we pass these regulations, those Kenyans"
}