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    "id": 52027,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/52027/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Eseli",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 141,
        "legal_name": "David Eseli Simiyu",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, as Parliamentarians, we can go through this Bill and bring the amendments we require, if the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee is not up to the task. I believe that the membership of the Committee is a victim of impunity. The previous appointments, which were subsequently discarded, are the ones which have brought about this split in the Committee. So, the Members of the Committee are actually victims of impunity. Therefore, they should sit down and find out whether they are part of the problem or part of the solution, so that they can come together and move this country forward in terms of the implementation of the Constitution. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Political Parties (Amendment) Bill should also be brought here, so that we can put all these things together. Right now, we are observing a lot of political party promiscuity. We are seeing people belonging to certain political parties behaving “incestuously” and things like that. We need to change this course. I believe that the Bill that the Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs has brought here is skeletal. He has to put some meat on it by quickly bringing The Political Parties (Amendment) Bill and the Electoral Bill, so that we can put everything in a proper perspective. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the incoming Commission will be tasked with heavy responsibilities. For instance, they will have to address the issue of pre- rigging of elections, as it is happening right now. Kenyans are silent. They have not realised that there is pre-rigging of the 2012 General Election going on. People are not getting national identification cards (IDs). There is no printing of IDs going on right now. All the counties in the western Kenya region are waiting with bated breath for the issuance of ID cards. There is a large population with no ID cards. So, by the next general election, they will be disenfranchised. That is pre-rigging. So, the incoming Commission will have to address this issue. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, as I said, the Bill itself looks more of a skeleton, and there are some things in it which are interesting, if not absurd, to say the least. I would like to cite the issue of staggering the appointment of members of the Commission, as provided under Part II, whose Clause 7(5), says:- “7(5) Four other members of the Commission shall be appointed not more than twelve months from the first appointment under subsection (4).”"
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