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    "id": 409220,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/409220/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, just for the record and a last minute effort, I had alluded to something before we recommitted of this clause. It might be safe and prudent for us to really be clear on the mechanism through which these disputes will be handled. I wanted to propose, just for the consideration of the Chair and, again, for the record, that we amend the new clause by inserting a provision that the National Assembly shall set up an Election Offences Tribunal that will hear and determine cases. If we do not do that, then we will be leaving the Commission to be investigator, judge and jury without any access to further recourse by a candidate, who may feel aggrieved by the decisions which will have grave consequences, including disqualification. Therefore, we might need to set up an Election Offences Tribunal that will sit; the prosecution will be done by the Commission that has found a Member guilty of an offence, and the candidate will give his side of the story. If he is not satisfied, then he will go to the High Court for the actual dispute resolution mechanism, and the IEBC will be there for that purpose. That is my intervention."
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