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    "speaker_name": "Kajiado South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Katoo ole Metito",
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        "legal_name": "Janet Marania Teyiaa",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, immediately you get to the field, you realise that the laws you have just passed are acting against you. Therefore, we are now in good time and that is why I appreciate the efforts of the Committee. They have brought the Bill when we can find time to discuss it soberly and ensure that what we legislate is not going to act against us because we would be the players and end users of this Bill. Hon. Speaker, if Members want to know that this is all about elections, the statutes that are proposed for amendment by this Bill are seven and only about two are not expressly about elections. This Bill proposes to amend the Election Offences Act and when we look around and see what is happening now in the by-elections in the country, Members of this House, as we speak, are in courts because of the Election Offences Act. Therefore, we should be very careful about it. The Election Campaign Financing Act talks about voter bribery and the like. It is high time that political parties met the campaign costs for Members of this House and other assemblies. There is the Election Offences Act, the Political Parties Act, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Act and then you are left with two which are the 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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