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    "content": "Mr. Chairman, Sir, I must mention about identity cards. In the last elections, we saw people applying for identity cards and the Registrar of Persons refused to release those identity cards. I recall in my own case in the County of Kitui, the Registrar of Persons released the cards immediately after the elections, meaning that he did not want people to vote. He did not want people to register as voters and he withheld the cards. I understand 300,000 identity cards were kept by the County of Bungoma by the Registrar of Persons. This is an area where the Registrar of Persons must be jailed if he commits such offences. I said it here the other day; that the Registrar of Persons has reached retirement age since last year but he has been asked to remain. Why is this so? Is it because they want him to do what he did last time? We will be watching and these people must be penalized if they do anything that attempts to undermine the rights of voters. Finally, during the last Bill, I talked about participation of public officers in elections. I say that this is as old as the Republic of Kenya. I want to see a situation where public officers are kept out of elections. Public officers have been warned for a long time and I know what happens with public officers when they are allowed to participate in elections. I can see Sen. Ndiema nodding because he was once a public officer and he knew how they used to manipulate elections when he was in public service. By the way, Mr. Ndiema, for your information was a very loyal officer under me those days. He was my District Commissioner (DC) and I do not know why he wants to challenge me. Let him keep his peace. Finally, I want to say that this issue of public officers – and I will keep on emphasizing – county public officer are also---"
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