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    "id": 945094,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Rarieda, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Otiende Amollo",
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        "legal_name": "Paul Otiende Amollo",
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    "content": "advantages under this Act, it is dangerous. Any one person will not be dominant depending on what you define society as, whether it is Parliament or otherwise. Four, in Clause 10(a)(iii), the Bill proposes the idea that the political parties fund once given to political parties will be used in a certain way. It reads: “Facilitating party candidates in campaigns.” Can we now start asking the parties to fund our campaigns, especially the campaigns of those who belong to the special interest groups? In other words, shall we now be asking parties to fund candidates who are either under youths, women or special minorities? I find that unacceptable. Five, in Clause 17, it proposes an impractical thing. It is fundamental, but impractical. Clause 17 captures the essence of what has been spoken about and what the Hon. John Mbadi spoke to. I wish he was here, I would have told him the history of how the Constitution came to have provisions requiring one third and provisions prescribing the number and the inconsistency. I can tell you without fear of contradiction – and Hon. Jeremiah Kioni is here – that, that problem was caused by Members of Parliament (MPs) who were then in charge of the Constitution drafting. We in the Committee of Experts on Constitutional Review (CoE) resolved that problem, but MPs went and increased the numbers of constituencies from 210 to 290 which was a good thing, but it was not based on any formulae. So, we asked them now that they had increased the number of constituencies and yet we had put a formula that will achieve one third, how shall we achieve that formula? They told us, including Members who are now not here, in their words: “Otiende, we will cross that bridge when we come to it.” So, we put that baby back to them. They never crossed that bridge. That bridge is a big and fundamental bridge that is not possible to cross without revisiting the Constitution. All the options – and we can look at them – are highly impractical. One of them is this, if I may demonstrate ---"
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