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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Onyura, you raised some very interesting point about public participation and responses by the public. The same institution, the National Assembly, advertised for positions of people who want to become commissioners of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). Over 800 applied. You advertise for memoranda to be submitted on the suitability or otherwise of candidates nominated into offices and nobody responds. Those who will respond write just a sentence like they have written regarding proposals to nominate certain Members of this House to be given certain awards. Some of them will just say: “This one makes a lot of noise in public rallies.” Those are then some of the responses. That is how we get the public to participate. So, it is up to them; the public. Parliament will go out of its way and ensure there is a notification or advertisement. As to whether the public responds, we leave it to them. For us, we have made an effort. There is nothing else we can do. We cannot go and hold our sittings in Uhuru Park. It is unfortunate on this one you notice that either the response was missing or wanting. Member for Vihiga Constituency."
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