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"content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am hearing it from Sen. Cherarkey. He seems to be highly connected to PSC Commissioners. I saw him enjoying a cup of tea prepared by our staff and I thought the food we serve is delicious and very tasty for our Members. I am not aware. I just want that to be on record. If there was such a push, certainly, the Senator for Nyamira and the Commissioner representing the Senate is not one of the Members pushing the outsourcing of catering services for MPs. I just wanted that to be on record."
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"content": " That information was meant for you, but it will also affect the entire Membership of this House, Sen. Cherarkey, proceed."
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"content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to confirm that it is at the highest level. Maybe Commissioner, Sen. Okongo, Omogeni, (SC) should be informed. I hope they will not allow that to happen because we will resist any such move. Secondly, I am informed that the USA Ambassador Megan Whitman has resigned. I want to pass on our deepest appreciation for her tour of duty in the country and for being supportive of the Government. You remember under her tenure, the Kenyan Government The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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"content": "was able to work closely with the Haiti Government to bring peace and security. Also, she organized the U.S. State Visit."
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"content": " Sen. Cherarkey, I want you to confine your contributions--- Yesterday, you were reminded by the Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale about the relevance of your comments to the Motion at hand."
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"content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the U.S. is one of the biggest donors to elections in this country. She was very instrumental. She was among the people who were in Bomas with you. I am surprised; you should be appreciated."
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"content": " I should do that. Let it be confined to this particular Bill."
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"content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, yes, I am tying up with what is happening in the genesis of the National Dialogue Committee (NADCO). The U.S. is one of the heaviest funders, not only to peace and security, but to elections in this country. She was very supportive and we wish her well in her tour of duty. Secondly, you have to appreciate the cost of election is very expensive. This has been my argument. In the last election of 2022, Kenya spent a whopping Kshs35.8 billion. That translates to Kshs2,000 shillings per voter, which is very expensive across the world. Therefore, we must agree that the election business in Kenya should not be live and dead. You were in the U.S. and you saw people voting by mail. You saw people accepting results graciously. I am happy to hear my brother, Sen. Osotsi, talking about Biden inviting Donald Trump to the White House. Was it today? Therefore, we want a peaceful transition, where people go into an election contest, you lose fairly, and you accept. Mr Temporary Speaker, Sir, what is happening - you have noted in some of your comments - is that, there is a deficit of trust among African countries and, more so, Kenyans. We do not trust each other. The only time Kenyans will trust each other about elections is when Jesus Christ will be the returning officer. We are becoming too prescriptive and subjective on election laws in this country. We are prescribing even how a presiding or returning officer should sign the declaration form at the polling station, county tallying centre, or national tallying centre. We are aware of what happened in 2007/2008 after elections were tampered with. The problem in this country is lack of trust in the institutions we have. People do not even trust Parliament, the Judiciary and the Executive. It behoves us to trust institutions that the Constitution has established. That is why the cost of election is very high in this country. As I speak, there are pending bills that the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has not settled. They include matatu operators and people who provided services and goods. The bills are a whopping over Kshs2.05 billion. While I agree with several issues, I think this proposal is just a clean-up of the Elections Act. Having served as the Chair of the Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs in the previous Parliament, we did several amendments on elections, but there was push and pull between the National Assembly and the Senate. Outside the basic issues that affect Kenyans, the most legislated matter in this House and spoken about generally in this country, is the issue of elections. When we go to an election and notice a problem, we come back and legislate. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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"content": "The other day, we did not trust use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in elections. Now, we want to trust it. There is a time we were told that there was José Camargo somewhere. There is also a time we were told that servers were in France. You all remember the famous phrase, “ fungua server”. Others said that it was in the USA, but we have a time difference. I am happy that this Bill seeks to amend the Elections Act to include a Kenyan passport as a form of identification and registration of candidates, which is good. In Clause 3(a), I agree that if people have not been registered as voters, registration, opening and inspection of the voters’ register should be suspended until a by-election or referendum is done. When the late hon. Sen. Mutula Kilonzo passed on, the victim was the sister to the current Governor of Makueni because she had not registered as a voter. A by-election could be happening in Vihiga or Banissa, for example. If I come from Banissa but vote in Nairobi, the law should not allow me to participate in the by-election in Banissa. I agree with this provision, so that we do not have ambulance chasers for parliamentary seats. The famous ambulance chaser is one, Baba Yao, hon. Ferdinand Waititi. He contested in Embakasi when unfortunately, the former MP from Kiambu who worked as a unionist was killed. When there was an opportunity to become the Governor of Kiambu, he went to contest. This provision will curtail such. The former governor, hon. Sonko, was also trying to be an expert in that. After failing here, he wanted to run as the Governor of Mombasa, yet I am sure he was a voter in this City. There are people like Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale who may want to become governors. We do not want to have a situation where somebody who is an MP in Nairobi wakes up one day and decides to run for Governor of Kakamega, yet those people do not know who they are. Let us bring sanity and hygiene to our politics. I agree with Clause 6. I know that 60 days are sufficient to rectify your particulars as a voter. We know that happened in Banissa. There is also a ward in Kakamega that has a similar challenge after the MCA was killed. On the issue of referendum, I agree that 60 days are sufficient to enable one to rectify their particulars. The fourth point I wanted to make is about Clause 27 on a coalition political party. For example, before we went to the elections of 2022, some of us who served in the 10th Session were being pushed to amend the law and create a coalition political party. I remember Sen. Otsotsi was in the National Assembly. The proponents then were in power and came up with something called Azimio Coalition. I am happy that in the new Session, the definition of a coalition party became a challenge and we are where we were in the beginning. With the broad-based Government, those things are no longer relevant. A coalition political party should submit a copy of their agreement to the Registrar of Political Parties. Are you aware that it is only Kenya-Kwanza Coalition agreement that was given to the Registrar of Political Parties and made public in the last session. No one made public the Azimio Coalition Agreement to date, unless there is contrary information outside there. We want everybody to be equal before the law."
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