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    "speaker_name": "Mr. M. Kilonzo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs",
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    "content": "(d) contributes to good governance.” Mr. Speaker, Sir, my submission to you with utmost respect is that my proposed amendments in this Bill contribute directly to each of those “a”, “b”, “c” and “d”. This is because if you look at nothing else, these are fundamental freedoms in Article 38 demanding every Kenyan to be able to participate in elections, above all the principles of elections that is; you have a right to be given elections that are free and fair, that are clear, that are without violence and that are without question. That is at page 55, Article 81. Mr. Speaker, Sir, therefore, is this Bill a trick? No, it is not. I am not clever enough to trick this honourable Chamber or the entire country. Is this Bill an omnibus? Of course not! It cannot be if I understand the phrase “elections”. Above all, allow me to ask you to, in considering these points of order, bear in mind that we deserve, as a country, transparent quality election and that is the purpose of these amendments. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Mr. Imanyara laid on the Table a document which he calls a book although it is actually an analysis prepared by the library on amendments since Independence. Since Section 47 has been retired, I just want you in looking at it, to look at very few of them, like the 1967 Bill (Act No.5 of 1967) that was proposed by my predecessor the late Tom Mboya in which he took all the sections of the Constitution and changed them by a parallel list. The rest of it goes on and on. You find the amendment where the Senate was abolished and new constituencies created. Mr. Speaker, Sir, my request, therefore, as I conclude, is to request you to give this matter the due consideration that it deserves and find that the Bill ought to be read the First Time and the point of order raised, out of order. I thank you, Sir."
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