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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise to strongly support this Bill. I am proud that I have gone down in history as being one of the 14 Members who enabled the country to come where we are now. Therefore, I use this opportunity to appeal to Senators to pass this Bill without amendments. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the third Clause talks of the offence relating to the register of voters. I would like the new chairperson of the IEBC together with the commissioners that will be lucky to serve to be aware that this is a minefield. Nobody will ever do what we were witnessing. That is having more than one register and incidences where dead voters, underage voters and outright illegal voters are in the register. It is the responsibility of the chairperson to ensure that such people are not in the register. If he walks around and carries a register with those kinds of inclusions, it is an offence for which he is going to be punished. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Clause 5 speaks to the offence relating to voting. Under Clause 5(a) the would be presiding officers are warned that incidences where illiterate voters in the rural areas would go to a presiding officer for assistance and the presiding officer marks for a candidate other than the intention of the illiterate voter or marks in a manner as to spoil the vote for the candidate that the illiterate chose, that presiding officer will bear the responsibility. Clause 5 (b) and (q) warns the voters. We have voters who go to the polling stations pretending that they do not know how to read and write and request to be assisted. This kind of style is the old politics of KANU where the KANU candidates would tell their coordinators that the voters must pretend that they are not able to read and write so that they know that they are voting in proportion with the money they have been given to vote for a specific candidate. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this is the time that our people will eat Jubilee money and they will vote in secret. There is no way Jubilee will know that the monies that they gave to our people have counted for nothing."
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