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    "id": 690845,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Wahome",
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        "legal_name": "Alice Muthoni Wahome",
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    "content": "On Monday, this week, I was at Nation Television station with Prof. Anyang-Nyong‘o and Farah Mohammed and the question of whether we shall allow party-hopping came up for debate. Clearly there was disagreement and the opposing side led by Farah said that there is no way we can legislate against party- hopping and I agreed. Today, this House did not legislate against party-hopping as such. I think we put sense in the manner in which we carry out our nominations towards the elections time. I personally suffered manipulation and mistreatment during nominations in 2002 and 2007. I agree that I did party-hopping, skip and jump. The fact is that if we can prevent the reasons that disfranchise and make people feel badly treated and lack of free and fair nominations, we shall have given a blow to injustices during the primaries. The country must know that the right to choose a political affiliation and party is still protected within the Constitution, so that Kenyans do not understand what we have done today as preventing them from making choice of the party. The media seems to be indicating that we have resolved there is no party-hopping. What we are saying is that make the choice of which party you want to associate with now. It is completely unfair--- In the last elections, after we conducted our nominations in Kandara, which I won with a landslide, the other five gentlemen and one lady except one joined other parties. This is malpractice. It is undemocratic. We hope that from now on we can put sense even to ourselves as aspirants so that we make choices early. There is time to deal with that because we have until possibly February or March for people to make their decisions and minds. I am against party-hopping after nominations. I am sad because there were very good amendments proposed by Members, but because of the arrangement of this afternoon, those amendments have been withdrawn. I had two amendments and one of them was speaking to the question of production and distribution of materials before campaigns begin. Of course, it did not see light of the day. I withdrew it. Hon. Speaker, I must respond, if you can give me a minute. Hon Junet has spoken to the question of gender equity and gender balancing during nominations and I think that he is quite misinformed about Article 81 of the Constitution that says that any elective or appointive position should observe the gender principle. Maybe he does not understand inclusivity and marginalisation. When those---"
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