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    "id": 738374,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ndiema",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1067,
        "legal_name": "Henry Tiole Ndiema",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am a Member of the committee which prepared this report and procedurally, therefore, I support. The rules are clear. They talk of election and in any election process, there must be competitors. While the minimum number of people to be nominated by parties to vie is not mentioned, the spirit of any election and not approval, is that there must be more than the number required. This is a matter that had gone to the court and it ruled that an election cannot be an election unless there are candidates from whom the voters have to vote for. I support the idea that the names should be increased to give opportunity to Kenyans to compete. While on the same, I think in future, we need to look at the rules and if need be, the Treaty itself in as far as election to EALA is concerned. We in Kenya have a bicameral Parliament and it is said that Parliament elects Members but we know in this country we have two houses where neither is subject or junior to the other. Both have equal strength in terms of the Constitution and the law despite the numbers. Mr. Speaker, Sir, to subject an election to universal suffrage to say each Member of the Senate and the National Assembly have one vote would therefore mean that more power is conferred to the National Assembly. In the African scene, we always see that a cow is slaughtered when it is alive, meaning that it is divided when it is alive. The nine positions should have been divided by virtue of the county assembly and the National Assembly perhaps having more Members. May be, they could get five and the Senate allocated four. We both elect and then the list is presented for approval. However, basically the Senate should have its"
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