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    "id": 748668,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Maanzo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kitonga Maanzo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this important Motion. I am one of the members of this Committee. I was also one of the lawyers in the East African Court of Justice Case with Hon. T.J. Kajwang’ here, led by the late Mutula Kilonzo Senior. We are very much familiar with the reasoning in that judgment. The situation present in Kenya at that time is very much distinguishable from what is the case today. Though we have our own regulations, it is clear from that judgment that each country was to cede some power to the Treaty so that when we make our laws, we comply with the provisions of the Treaty. It is clear that under Article 50 of the East African Treaty, the National Assembly of each partner State shall elect. This is mandatory. But when you come to the definition of an election in the judgment and the analysis, I want to state that what the Jubilee side has done is within the law and the current regulations. Also, what CORD has done is within the law under our current regulations and also under that particular judgment. Probably, while presenting the Report to Parliament, there could have been - and I believe there are still pending issues with the political parties - whereby it is the choice and wish of the Jubilee Coalition to pick three people through a process. What went on in Arusha is that election, as a process, begins in the political party and it has a certain process that much be complied with. In fact, in this case, each of the coalitions have complied with their own processes. You can see there were very many applicants. Some withdrew and others remained on board. In fact, the gentleman appearing in the Report here to have written a complaint against the Wiper Democratic Movement party later on wrote again and supported the nominee of the Wiper Democratic Movement, Mr. Kennedy Musyoka."
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