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    "id": 718938,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/718938/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kasuti",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Suleiman Murunga Kasuti",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for your advice that this Motion is for posterity. But, my problem is that Kenyans are watching and listening to us. When we start talking, we have only 10 days to complete this exercise. When we now start talking of motivating and encouraging those who have not registered to start thinking, although we can motivate and encourage them, it means these people will now sit down and wait for us to come up with these motivational mechanisms so that they can go and register. So, the timing of this Motion I think is not right. We know Kenyans. They will sit at home waiting for handouts or something like transport to go to the polling stations. Therefore, it is really confusing us. It is confusing the exercise that the President, the Deputy President, the leaders of CORD are doing every day. It is because Kenyans will now sit and wait for lunch so that they can go and register as voters. I think we can withdraw this Motion for the purpose of what is happening now. There is no time for the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs to sit down and come up with these compelling and persuasive mechanisms. There is no time for this. Kenyans out there are watching and I know Kenyans are very smart. They will just sit and wait for these mechanisms to be put in place so that they can go and register as voters. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker."
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