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"content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, it is always refreshing for Members to propose amendments to Acts, Bills or the Constitution. Because of time, I will be very brief. Amendments proposed under Article 88 of the Constitution are an interesting reading. They are a study on how we can manipulate a system to get to a certain desired goal. We find ourselves in an extraordinary situation where we do not have a functional Commission, not because there is any lacuna in the law on how to recruit and replace retiring commissioners, but because the politics of the day have made it practically impossible to have a new Commission. Since we have omnipresent presidents or leadership, we take ambiguous positions and hound out those we disagree with, who are the referees, because they have made a call that we disagree with. We are trying to legislate for posterity on a matter that has nothing to do with the future. Who thinks that we will always have such a scenario? Article 250 of the Constitution is explicitly clear on what constitutes a commission. The IEBC is a constitutional commission. A constitutional commission is not a commission without the commissioners and the secretariat. It would have, therefore, been consequential for this amendment to stand. It amends Article 250 to allow circumstances where a secretary can assume the role of the commissioner. As the substantive Speaker said, you cannot amend a constitutional proposal or a Bill; it either passes or falls as it is. Unfortunately, this has to face the fate as it is. It cannot stand because an election is an election. There is no contemplation in the law or the Constitution on the difference between a by-election and a main election. Elections must be undertaken by a commission composed of the commissioners and the secretary. As much as I want to sympathise with the people of Banissa because Hon. Kulow was my personal friend, unfortunately, the law is the law. There is nothing we can do. Let us practise clean politics and avoid being vindictive or hound people out because we disagree with them."
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"content": "The amendment by Hon. Alice Ng’ang’a is an interesting read. I agree with retaining what exists. It would be extremely unfair to wake up in the morning and wipe out Lamu East and Lamu West. It will be unfair to wipe out my neighbours, Budalangi. My grandmother would curse me and my mother would be extremely unhappy because she hails from there. She could not find a suitable husband in Budalangi and that is why she came to Funyula Constituency to look for my father. We must always respect the symbiotic relationship that we have. Some of the reasons these constituencies might not meet the numbers are beyond our control. It would have been good for the Hon. Member to tell us what the population of these constituencies was after the 2019 census report. Members of these constituencies have gone to sleep putting the country in a conundrum they could have easily avoided. The last review was in 2012. It has been 12 years and, in that period, each individual could have multiplied themselves six times. We ask them to go to work so that in the next review, they do not ask for sympathy. All adults here know the only way to overcome marginalisation. In western Kenya, we do not have a problem. Our kindergarten classrooms are full of children. Let them borrow a leaf on how to get the work done. With those few remarks, I encourage them to pursue but we need to solve this problem once and for all and probably borrow a leaf from what Ambassador Sunkuli has said regarding expansion. The Constitution also provides safeguards. It talks about geographical features, urban centres, communities of interest, historical, economic, and cultural ties. We do not need to The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
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"content": "amend the Constitution. Let us go to work. We need numbers. Population is good for the market and the economy. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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"content": "ADJOURNMENT"
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"content": " Hon. Members, we may rise. These two constitutional matters will be looked at again when the House Business Committee schedules them again. The time being 7:00 p.m., the House stands adjourned until Tuesday, 12th March 2024, at 2.30 p.m."
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