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    "id": 317643,
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    "speaker_name": "Eng. Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity. The issue of the independence of the IEBC has been said so many times, but I want to contend that independence cannot be exercised in a vacuum. I agree with what hon. Ethuro has said that Kenyans must be very wary of the IEBC. These guys have been over-praised. When we approved their names here, the feeling was that we were approving the names of nine people who were good enough to be married by Mr. Caesar, but then it has turned out that these are ordinary human beings. They fight over tenders, there is so much nepotism and we must put our foot down. We are the lawmaking body of this country. We know what we have gone through, through bungled elections and if we feel that these nine people cannot do it, we throw them out. We gave them the job. Why are we mincing words on this? To be honest, these fellows have not done anything more spectacular than what the Kivuitu Commission did. That one took us through a more adversarial referendum and they went through. We are praising these commissioners and we continually do so. As I conclude, I was not here yesterday, but I heard over the radio the Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs defending the BVR. How do you defend the BVR when we do not even have data protection laws in this country? What guarantee do we have that people will not steal our data? I want to urge the Minister to let Canada, for instance, to tell us where they have successfully sold the BVR. We cannot just be swallowing things lying hook and sinker because somebody says it is good for us. Why are big economies like Germany retreating on this BVR business? It is easier to steal using electronics than it is manually because the integrity of any electronic system is as good as the integrity of the people who operate them. We know what people have done in this country. So, we have to be extremely careful, but we must, as a House, collectively, express our disappointment with the IEBC. We have praised these people too much, we are running into an abuse and if we continue praising them, we are preparing ourselves for another 2007/2008."
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