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    "id": 973854,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndaragwa, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jeremiah Kioni",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 49,
        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I will tell you and I want to speak to the previous one. This amendment by Hon. Godfrey Osotsi, even if we had another as a Committee, maybe, he was not able to phrase it properly. The intention was to ensure that as many persons as possible with special interests are helped in campaigns so that they can learn how to do things. However, when you start saying that it is only one person who should be helped for two, three or four times, then you are not widening the space for these persons with special interests. Maybe how he captured the wording is what is wrong. We had the same issue under Clause 9 which has been shot down. But the intention of that amendment was not to stop a person from running for a political sit. Once you have been facilitated by the party and you come to Parliament, you should have learnt the ropes. Go and do it. Let us facilitate another one with special interest so that we can see whether he can also come to Parliament. What are we trying to do eventually? We are trying to increase the population of persons with special interests in Parliament without bringing them through the backdoor. It is important that we know that. It is just a matter of time… We are in big parties, but how many of these big parties are able to bring persons with disabilities, women or minority groups to Parliament? If we can widen the scope, we would have more of them in Parliament. However, if we do not want them in Parliament, then the essence of these amendments would not make sense. It is important for us to have it on record. I know when we come to campaigning, you will hear people saying that they want persons with this and that. I wanted to mention that but I see a problem with the wording of Hon. Osotsi’s amendment."
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