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    "id": 1065733,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Endebess, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose",
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    "content": "Making those changes is cosmetic to me because it does not address the real issues. What happened to those who looted KEMSA? Those who inflated the prices? What happened to the 21 days given by the President where he needed a report in his office and to see people being prosecuted by the EACC and the DCI? What happened? Do we have to wait for the USA to start sanctioning us? To tell us that the Antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) at the Port cannot be distributed through KEMSA because they no longer trust KEMSA to me that is very sad. The KEMSA board does not run KEMSA. It is a board of directors which maybe sits once quarterly, but the real rot in KEMSA is, do we have people who have been prosecuted? What happened with the ultimatum that the President gave of 21 days? Has it been addressed? The main issue that was raised by the people from Central and Mount Kenya was the one- man-one-shilling. Is that reflected in this Bill? Even when you look at the constituencies, you find that Mount Kenya is only getting eight constituencies out of the 70. Is it beneficial to them? Is it addressing the one-man-one-shilling? Hon. Speaker, moving to the issue about amending Article 89, when you amend this Article on the delimitation functions of the IEBC, and in the Schedule you give it to the IEBC to decide which constituencies are to be created, that to me is unconstitutional. It is interfering with the Commission’s work. You can only amend to say that there shall be, let us, say from 290 constituencies to 390. Then, the IEBC has to use the guidelines which they are given by the Constitution to delimit. However, this matter being before the court, I do not think I can make more comments about it. We leave it to the court to determine but, I am happy that, once this process is over from this House, it cannot proceed beyond just us passing or rejecting it. But on my position, I reject. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I oppose it."
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