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    "id": 690565,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ochieng",
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        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
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    "content": "done. Thank you so much for that ruling. The offences in this Act, like Hon. Jakoyo has said, are not new. I wish the Committee which we tasked this job considered the problem. The problem is not the offences, but the capacity of the bodies concerned to enforce the law. I wish they had proposed to appropriate some money to enable Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to employ more staff to enforce the law. Party hopping is in the law, and it is not allowed 45 days to elections. In the last elections, we saw Jubilee and the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) changing names up to 12 days before the elections. That is because the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) had no capacity to stop party-hopping. Even now, unless we build the capacity of the IEBC to enforce the law, party- hopping will be there whether it is in the law or not. I wish this Parliament would allocate enough money to IEBC and the police to enable them enforce the law. I have looked at those offences again and I have heard people talking about the use of resources. This has been in the law for a long time. Offences with regard to voting have been in the law, but the problem is enforcing them. Sometimes, we see photos and media reports about offences being committed, but no one follows them through. We do not see the IEBC and the police following them through because of lack of capacity to enforce the law. Hon. Speaker, on the issue of nominations, I want you to listen to this because, sometimes back, there was only one party in this country called KANU. In the years before in Siakago Constituency, and I wish Hon. Nyenze was here---"
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