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    "id": 760085,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I was going to the substantive provisions. I hope that you are pausing my time because this is becoming vexatious and frivolous. The first provision that we have looked at in this Bill and everything is in order. I was talking to Sen. Kajwang and he said that we are shortening time yet it has been done before. For the Constitutional Amendment Bill 2008, the publication period was reduced from 14 days to five days. The National Accord and Reconciliation Bill was reduced from 14 days to five days. The Security Laws Amendment Bill in 2014 was reduced from 14 days to one day. The Anti-Doping Bill was reduced from 14 days to seven days. It has been done severally. This is one of those exceptional times that it must be done. On the provisions of the Chairman and I am glad my colleague, Sen. Wamatangi, has alluded to that fact, we were providing for an eventuality that can happen. If the law is followed as it is today without implicit reference to Article 259(3)(b) of the Constitution, once votes have been tallied, have been added and are just waiting for declaration of the President, if Chebukati, the Chairman of IEBC decides to resign, this country will have to wait for us to begin the process of hiring a new Chairman of IEBC before we declare the results that are right before us. Is Parliament wrong to provide perpetual continuity and succession within the IEBC? Of course, not."
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