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    "id": 721232,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Memusi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1661,
        "legal_name": "Elijah Memusi Kanchory",
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    "content": "I thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the Motion on the approval of the nominees for appointment to the offices of chairperson and members of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). I would like to start by opposing the appointment of one Mr. Wafula Chebukati as the chairperson of the IEBC. I must express my disappointment as a leader and a Kenyan on the appointment of Mr. Chebukati. If I may take this House back to how we came to looking for new chairpersons and members of the IEBC, this House will remember that Kenyans lost lives; this House will remember that property worth millions of shillings was destroyed; this House will remember that Kenyans were inconvenienced; we lost man-hours in which Kenyans would have been working, and businesses were inconvenienced. For this, I would have expected as any other Kenyan would that the person we approve as the chairperson of the IEBC will be without blemish. This cannot be said about one Mr. Chebukati. We have a Petitioner whose Petition surprisingly, was not captured by the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs. We have a Petition by one Mr. Kasim Shabaan bringing out issues touching on one Mr. Chebukati. These issues touch on his integrity and other issues. I can be happy to table this."
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