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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dawood",
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        "legal_name": "Abdul Rahim Dawood",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I do not know if I will be supporting this Motion or not. It is so ambiguous. It does not specify exactly what the Mover wanted to say. I do not know what the House Business Committee (HBC) was doing. There was a Motion which was on the Floor of the House on the Sexual Offences Bill which had one hour left and it should have been given priority. Even if we debate this today, it will still go to the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs to sort it out. Nevertheless, what Hon. Njomo is trying to say is something which we just do not understand. What does he mean by persuasive and compelling mechanisms? He should have spelt out what he was talking about. I would like to reiterate what my fellow Member of Parliament from Meru County, Hon. Mwiti said. The American election was not won by the popular vote, but it was won by the college delegates vote. Hillary Clinton got 56 million. She had about two million votes over Donald Trump but still lost because of other reasons. So, we cannot compare that and what we want to do for ourselves. We need to register our people and give them IDs and I would like to congratulate His Excellency the President who has said that our people should be given IDs so that at least they can get voters cards. Previously, most of our children used to take years to get birth certificates. Some could not get the birth certificates hence they could not register. Why would we have people who we know are there and we do not give them IDs? When we do not give them IDs, we disefranchise them from voting. Most of our people would want to vote but we have to give them a reason to vote. If there is no real reason to vote--- If you check the trend of 2013 and previous elections, you will find that people in the central part of Kenya and Rift Valley had about 86 per cent voter turnout. People who were asking for votes in CORD areas did not inspire anybody. So they had a voter turnout of less than 60 per cent. Are we saying that we are going to force people to be The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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