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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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    "content": "amendments. I also agree with Sen. Pareno that we need to have comprehensive legal reforms. We need to amend the ―A‖ to ―Z‖ of the elections laws. There are several things that have been passed by this House which are extremely objectionable. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the last time that we debated the controversial Election Laws (Amendment) Bill, we sat here until midnight. The Jubilee Party side voted for the Senate not to have a role on matters of boundary reviews concerning wards and constituencies. That is in the law. Our colleagues also voted to have in law and refused my particular amendment for the Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee to oversight the IEBC. Currently, we have no role on the IEBC. It is only the National Assembly which has a role on the IEBC. Under Section 107, the Senate has no role on the regulations on elections. We have no role on the elections and regulations that brought all of us here. When we brought the proposed amendments, there was caucusing and lobbying. People worked hard to ensure that all those amendments were defeated. At that time, it did not seem wrong; and it did not seem that some of these things were going to bite us. I have seen an amendment now by the Senate Majority Leader on part of those aspects, yet I spent quite an amount of time lecturing him and Sen. Sang, who was leading the troops on these amendments at that time."
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