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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, it is good that we are all here as political practitioners and the nature of campaign expenses is something unpredictable, that you find yourself getting into expenses that are not necessarily foreseeable beforehand. This clause is in a way protecting those of us who are political practitioners, so that so long as you can justify it before the Commission, clearly this is understood that this justifiable expenses will not be things that may be illegal like bribery and inducements. She has put it very well that in different parts of the country, there are unique and peculiar circumstances that only appertain in particular areas and do not apply in other parts. Some of these circumstances only become known once they manifest themselves. For example, I remember I have been sitting in the CDF Committee and one of the things we grappled with after the post election violence was where a constituency had used money to help people who had been injured during the post election violence. Clearly, on the letter of the CDF Act, it was not permissible, but we looked at it bearing on the circumstance. This was a situation that was outside anybody’s scope to manage and we thought it was admissible. Even when audits were done, we agreed that, that The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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