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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Waititu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 147,
        "legal_name": "Ferdinand Ndung'u Waititu",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the amendment. It is true that the issuance of ID cards has been riddled with irregularities. Right now, if you go to Kayole DO’s office, you will find cartons full of ID cards. Nobody knows who the owners are. Probably, the owners of those ID cards are out there with waiting cards. Those Kenyans have a right to vote. We realize that this is a problem affecting so many people. Therefore, it is only noble that we support this amendment, so that everybody could vote as guaranteed in the Constitution. So many Kenyans do not even understand why it takes so long to get an ID card. Once somebody goes to the DO’s office with a waiting card, they are normally given those cartons full of IDs to search for their ID. It is not workable to search for a single ID out of 1,000 IDs. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I support the amendment. It is my sincere hope that other Members will support it. As my friend the Chief Whip has said, the Office of Registrar of Political Parties has no capacity to register all members that are streaming in from all political parties in this country. There is also a very big loophole with the registration. Anybody could sign a form transferring a name from one political party to the other. That can be effected at the Registrar of Political Parties without the knowledge of the person who had the registration initially. During voting, when somebody goes with that nomination card and finds that his or her name does not appear in the register that will be some sort of rigging. We know very well that Kenyans right now are suspicious of their friends and competitors. They think that they will be rigged out. The only way out of this problem is to allow this amendment, so that everybody who has registered in a political party and posseses a card and is in the register of that political party could participate in the nomination. I urge my fellow Members of Parliament to support this amendment, so that we have smooth electioneering during the nomination process. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I second the amendment."
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