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    "id": 718709,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/718709/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Otucho",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mary Emaase Otuch",
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    "content": "registered as Kenya nationals may be enlisted as voters in the on-going voter registration exercise has become a matter of public notoriety. As a matter of fact, the law on registration of voters in the country clearly outlines that for one to be eligible for enlisting as a voter in Kenya, that person must have a national identification card as proof of Kenyan citizenship. Hon. Deputy Speaker, to imagine that foreigners who in all manner and intent do not bear national identification cards as Kenyans would be registered as voters in a country where they are not citizens is the highest order of fallacy. I want to refute and condemn in the strongest terms possible the allegations that I am involved in poaching Uganda nationals to register as voters in my constituency. Those are mere fabrications being milled and peddled by my opponents, who have already sensed defeat so as to tarnish my name and portray me as a bad leader ahead of the August 2017 General Election. I also wish to reassure my supporters, friends and the entire nation that I am safe. I was not detained by security agencies in Uganda or in Kenya. Hon. Deputy Speaker, considering that general elections are usually characterised by high emotions, I wish to implore the security and intelligence agencies to investigate and apprehend persons found culpable of peddling such dangerous rumours that are likely to put the country on the brink of election-related violence."
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