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    "id": 727972,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Onyonka",
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        "legal_name": "Richard Momoima Onyonka",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Hon. Ngeno, with due respect, knows that he is my friend and colleague. These regulations have been brought at this time for the simple reason that the Elections Laws Act was recently amended in this House. As a result of the tight timelines, we are left with no time other than now to approve these regulations. Secondly, if these regulations are not passed by this House now, we will have many people filing petitions with the elections courts, arguing that even as at the time when the elections were taking place we did not have a legal framework under which the elections could be done. I stand to be corrected by my brother, Hon. Cheptumo, who is the Chair of the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee. Therefore, my feeling is that we just start and finalise the process of approving these regulations for the purpose of the forthcoming elections. Everything has been rushed for the simple reason that our legislation programme has been the issue."
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