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    "id": 928079,
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    "speaker_name": "Ndhiwa, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Martin Owino",
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        "legal_name": "Martin Peters Owino",
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    "content": "The Bill is timely. In the previous one, we put a lot of religious leaders to be in charge. When an election is bashed, it is politicians who are mostly affected because they represent people. When they are affected, they come to us for various reasons. So, we are the stakeholders in this Bill. I am happy with one point that the Parliamentary Service Commission is involved because this is an umbrella for all of us. If you go further, civil servants have conflicts. If they are involved in selection and then later on, things go wrong and they are involved again, you still have a mess in your hands. The reason the Members are opposing the composition which the Committee has put forward is that we may not get much out of the current status. Some will be easily influenced because they are within the system. There is a quote which was said by Mr. Larry Sabato that: “Every election is determined by the people who show up.” Most of our elections are determined by the people who run them, which is quite the opposite."
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