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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mulu",
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        "legal_name": "Benson Makali Mulu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I appreciate the frustration my friend is going through. I did not say that we should not persuade Kenyans to get voters card. If anything, what is important in this Motion is the issue of persuasion. I think we need to go out there and persuade them to register. But instead of persuading them when we are about to go for an election, it is good that we come up with long-term plans and mechanisms to make sure that people register as voters. That is why I am saying that one of the attractive things is to make sure that once people are elected to office, they should make an effort of meeting the expectations of the electorate, so that at the end of the day, the electorate have a reason to wake up very early in the morning to go and register. Unless we do that, we will not be helping this country. As I support this Motion, the work this Committee has is to make sure that the 12th Parliament, once it is on board, because the Members will have a longer term than us, should start by enacting all the necessary amendments to make sure that we have a legal framework which can encourage Kenyans to register without persuading them the last minute. That is a more long-lasting solution to this problem than just saying that we persuade them and in a year like this one, we take water and pasture to them. What Hon. Makau is saying is very true. It was an insult to the Akamba Community for a whole President of this country to come to my constituency with only two bowsers of water and a lorry with pasture. Was he coming to see cows or human beings? We need to be careful. That is why we are saying that as a community, we need to be serious. With those comments, I support the Motion. However, it is a long-term Motion to help this country have everybody register as a voter. I support, Hon. Deputy Speaker."
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