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    "id": 330458,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/330458/?format=api",
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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": " Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I would have supported this amendment purely for purposes of bringing clarity in terms of what regulations or information should be submitted. But looking at the information that is required, even those three are already problematic. We just talked earlier, when we were reducing the fees, about including these young university students who have just completed university. They will, obviously, not have a Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) clearance certificate because they have not even started paying the loans. So, in terms of this certificate of good conduct from the Kenya Police Service, I know that we ask for it for matatu drivers and conductors. Right now, there is a huge queue of people being cleared by political parties because they are required to get this certificate of good conduct. It takes a minimum of two weeks. Suppose on the election day, you have not received yours and you are being frustrated by your political opponents who will make sure that you do not receive it, what will happen to you? Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, the same applies to the tax compliance certificate from the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA). If it is not in the Elections Act, why would we want to bring it in the Election Regulations? We were very clear when we were doing the Leadership Code and said that there has to be a self-declaration form. That is, perhaps, the maximum that should be required of a candidate. Once you have been nominated and cleared, if there is an issue it will be raised. But as of now, let us not bring some onerous provisions for people to then go looking for papers, because this goes counter to the provisions of Article 38 of our Constitution, where we say that nobody should be unreasonably burdened in terms of pursuit of their democratic rights to vie for an election. Madam Temporary Chairlady, I would oppose parts “a”, “b” and “c”, but I am not opposed to the deletion of subsection (2). So, perhaps, I would persuade the Chair of the Committee and Minister to further amend this; that Regulation 45 be amended by deleting paragraph 2 and we just leave it at that. This is because the Leadership and Integrity Code is very clear in terms of the self-declaration form that you are supposed to"
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