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    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/662996/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "I have no objection with Clause 8, which states that members have an option of not going. I am not speaking of us; this is the political class deciding the bed they want to jump in. I am talking about the people who elected the Members and the benefit that they have. That is my quarrel with the amendment. I was speaking about the Public Service Commision where we are subjecting the Registrar of Political Parties. This is supposed to be a prefect of political parties yet we are subjecting him to yet another process and making him or her just another civil servant or another servant who is hired by the PSC and removing the process that is in the Fifth Schedule and Sixth Schedule. These Schedules exist to ensure that we have a Registrar of Political parties who is firmly anchored in the Constitution. If Sen. Murkomen, for example, disobeys the Political Parties Act and the constitution of his party, irrespective of the position he holds, he can be disciplined if I raise a complaint as a member of that political party. I know that Sen. Murungi likes some of these amendments, but looking prospectively as opposed to what we want to do tomorrow and the day after before 2017, it is just clawing back on the principles of Articles 91 and 92. To that extent, I will not support those amendments that I have mentioned. Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir."
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