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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Oyoo",
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        "legal_name": "James Onyango Oyoo",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also wish to add my voice in support of this Bill, albeit the brouhaha that was precipitated by the issue of party- hopping. I want to take this opportunity to warn this House that in future, when you have an opportunity to nominate Members to a particular select committee, it is not an opportunity for them to push for their personal interests. This thing was about the IEBC. We expected issues to do with IEBC. There are Members who deviated, went overboard and brought in extraneous matters. What we have been debating and what generated a lot of heat in this House could have been contained in an Election Review Act. We spent a lot of time debating nothing because some people wanted to bring in the interests of some party leaders which was not very convenient. I have looked at the suggestions they put in this Report and I realised a lot of things were not covered such as things to do with registration. There are also other good things that were articulated such as things to do with polling stations. There are places in Kenya, which I am not going to name, where there are only 300 voters queuing to vote. However, there are places like where I come from where we expect one polling station to harbour more than 2,000 voters. You do not expect everyone to get an opportunity to vote on the same day. We do not want people to 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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