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    "id": 443145,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kanainza",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Daisy Nyongesa Kanainza",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support the amendment that is on this Bill. I want to appreciate Sen. Wangari for thinking through to correct a wrong that has happened before. When you look at the current situation, we are looking forward to see that this affirmative action has been achieved or adhered to by 2015. That is why it is important for us to have precedence and even set the rules properly. When you look at the Constitution of Kenya Article 90(2)(a), it says that each political party participating in a general election nominates and submits a list of persons who will stand elected if the party were to be entitled to all seats provided for under Clause 1. That is why I support strongly the view that these nominated Members, whether in the Senate, the National Assembly or in the County Assemblies stand elected after the nomination. That is why it is very important that even when they were swearing in the elected Members of the County Assemblies, even the nominated ones were supposed to be sworn in. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, to that extent, somehow the IEBC failed and it has brought back the process. That is why I say that we need to have better rules and policies that will be able to guide this process so that they are treated equally. Even sometimes when the county governments are having functions, they only call the elected leaders."
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