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    "id": 846415,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Baringo North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. William Cheptumo",
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        "legal_name": "William Cheptumo Kipkiror",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the Bill. I take this chance to thank Hon. Wamalwa for coming up with this proposed amendment to the Constitution to change the date of the elections from August to December. I chair the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. This Bill was referred to my Committee. I want to inform the House that this proposed amendment received overwhelming support from Kenyans. We split the Committee into three groups. One group went through the Western and Nyanza parts of our country. Another group undertook public hearings in Nairobi, Machakos and Mombasa. Another group went to Northern Kenya. I want to inform the House that we covered the entire country for two good weeks, listening to Kenyans giving their views on the proposed amendment. In the interest of time, I just want to summarise our findings. Out of the various public hearings, 1,845 persons and 59 institutions or groups appeared before the Committee during the public hearings in various parts of our country. It is very important for this House to know because the consumers of the amendment of this law changing the date to December are the Kenyan people. It is the voters themselves who will use that date to choose their leaders. Among the institutions which submitted their views to the Committee are some which have huge memberships. For example, Amani National Congress Women League in Mombasa, Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, Centre for Enhanced Democracy and Good Governance, Centre for Multiparty Democracy, Centre for Rights and Awareness and the Chamber of Commerce. Just imagine the membership of the Chamber of Commerce. It is a huge institution with a big population. There was also the Council of Imams, Council of Elders of Isiolo and Borana and the Federation of Women Lawyers. Those are very serious institutions. There was also the Kenya Girl Guides Association, the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT), Maendeleo ya 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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