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    "id": 760374,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/760374/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon.Cheptumo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 50,
        "legal_name": "William Cheptumo Kipkiror",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move: THAT, the Bill be amended by deleting clause 11 and substituting therefor the following new clause— 11. Section 6 of the Election Offences Act, 2016 is amended in the closing statement by Amendment of section 6 deleting the words “one million shillings or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding of No. 37 of three years” and substituting therefor the words “two million shillings or to imprisonment 2016 for a term not exceeding five years”. The rationale for this amendment is that initially, the Bill intended to address returning officers and presiding officers. We have been able to provide for punishment for those staff of the Commission. Upon going through Section 6 of the Elections Act, it became very clear that the provisions under the Act were more elaborate and able to provide the same offences for either the presiding officer or the returning officer of the Commission. Therefore, we have only dealt with the issue of enhancing punishment. We have enhanced the penalty from Ksh3 million to Ksh5 million for those offences. That is the justification for amending the Bill to only provide for the penalty as opposed to targeting the returning officer or the presiding officer in the constituencies and in the polling centres. That is the basis of the amendment."
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