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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ochieng’",
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        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, what are we recommitting? Are we saying that this amendment was there on the Floor and we did not pass it or what was wrong? The amendment being proposed on manual voting was never discussed in the Committee. It was presented to us by the IEBC, but we never discussed it. What was discussed, and I need to tell you this very clearly, was the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR). I remember my colleague, Hon. Ngeno, and I spending more than 20 minutes on something called the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) and not manual voting. So, what is being claimed to be part of the Report of the Committee is not. Hon. Speaker, you may need to investigate whether we discussed this and whether this whole amendment was brought before this House. It will be a grave mistake for us to sit here and debate a matter purportedly from the Committee just because Hon. Duale went to the Press or to a rally and said that we have recommitted this amendment. It was never there. It is wrong and we cannot allow it to happen. It goes against the law. We will be throwing out the rules of Committees. Hon. Speaker, Hon. Kajwang’ has asked you whether there is a report. Does the report say this is what the Committee said on this matter? Is there a report saying that the Committee deliberated on this matter and on this issue, this is what the Committee resolved? There is no report like that because we never discussed it. This issue is here in vacuum. It is not supposed to be here and we cannot allow the Hon. Leader of the Majority Party and Hon. Chepkong’a to fill in for their failures as leaders."
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