Instrument No. 92 of 2006 did not have a provision specifying the time and place where the statutory declaration of assets and liabilities for presidential candidates were to be inspected. Conversely, regulation 20 of the repealed Electoral (General) Regulations Statutory Instrument No. 92 of 2006 provided for inspection of nomination papers for candidates in the constituency, by registered voters, at a reasonable time at the office of the returning officer. This repealed regulation 20 read as follows: 20. After a returning officer for a constituency has given notice, under regulation 19, and before the day appointed for the taking of the poll in the constituency, any person registered in such a constituency may, at any reasonable time, inspect, at the office of the returning officer, any of rhe nomination papers of the candidates in that constituency. [57] Following the 2016 constitutional amendments, Article 52 (3) provides as follows: The information contained in a nomination paper and affidavit shall be puohsncd by the Electoral Commission, as prescribed. [58] It is clear that Article 52 (3) provides that nomination papers and the affidavits for all candidates at presidential, parliamentary and local government levels must be published, as prescribed. The use of the word 'publish' connotes public access to the nomination paper and the affidavit. Black's Law Dictionary Revised 4th Edition defines the word publish as: “to make public; to circulate; to make known to people genera!;...making known something to the public for a purpose" [59] Public access to such information is therefore in still constitutionally recognised. Article 52 (3) of the Constitution mandates the lbl Respondent to publish the information, as J24

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