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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Westlands, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Tim Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Timothy Wanyonyi Wetangula",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also want to contribute to this Bill. While I wish to support this amendment, I look at it differently. As a Member of Parliament from Nairobi, December is very dangerous because there is a migration of people to rural areas. So, Nairobi will be empty and you can easily lose an election. The other time we held an election in March and it was just as good. So, I believe if we move away from August, March will be an appropriate date. This Constitution has been in existence for eight years. It is now time to audit it because there are provisions which are not practical. We need to bring them to the real situation in Kenya so that we move forward. We need to remove the 20 per cent that was alluded to during the Referendum in 2010. It was said that 20 per cent was not good and 80 per cent was good. We have seen where the 20 per cent is, including the election date. When the makers of this Constitution, in their own wisdom, picked the date in August, they were looking at many things. But we overlooked things like interfering with school calendar, the Budget cycle and many other things. December is appropriate as has been said, but as a Member of Parliament from Nairobi, it is also dangerous for us because it will require us to make sure that people do not go home at that time. The electioneering period for elections in August also interferes with learning and the economy. That is the time when those who engage The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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