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    "id": 687127,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. ole Kenta",
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        "legal_name": "Richard Moitalel ole Kenta",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I would like to join my colleagues in supporting the Report. The most important thing is that the issue of party hopping has been removed. That was the most contentious and thorny issue simply because a few people were trying to serve their own selfish interests at the expense of many people. That is something that should not be accepted. I want to quote Lord John Dalberg-Acton who rightly said that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. That is where we were heading to. Somebody could decide you were not going anywhere after locking you out of his or her party. So, I thank the members who have supported the amendment. The Report is very exhaustive and I would like to congratulate the people who prepared it though they went slightly overboard. However, we should realise that this is a negotiated Report. It was an agreement that had brought us to the right way of thinking because where we were headed was dangerous. It is something that we should look at as a way of recouping what we were losing. One of the most important proposals was that there should be an audit of the voter register. We know there were problems in the last elections because more than 2 million votes were cast for somebody. That was very questionable. I believe that we will curb that the moment we clean up the register. 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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