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    "id": 1094276,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyando, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jared Okello",
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        "legal_name": "Jared Odoyo Okelo",
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    "content": " I thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. My political persuasion, ODM, and its defunct NASA Coalition, have always held the view that we are dealing with a very inept and rudderless IEBC. Our opponents across the aisle have always believed that this is the best electoral umpire we have ever got in this country. Today, they are confronted with the same ineptitude and we are increasingly getting vindicated. I was very keen on petitions, especially election petitions, in 2013, during the first election after the new constitutional order, and during the 2017 elections. Whereas one could have presented cogent and incontrovertible evidence, the mere fact that you file outside the constitutional timeline means you lose that petition. The IEBC has always been a respondent in all election petitions and here they are shooting themselves on the foot by the same thing that our courts have always held. Anything with a constitutional timeline must be respected even if it is a Sunday or Saturday. They have always known that after one year, all Regulations ought to be in place, but they wait until the tail-end of this process and they want to confront Parliament with their own ineptitude, so that we help them resolve their own mischief. This is a matter that when you retreat to give your traditionally good ruling, the timeline will form a basis. Hon. Speaker, allow me to digress a little bit by thanking you. Last week, I raised a matter here concerning secondary schools. Today, a circular is already out barring any principal from charging additional levies outside those which are prescribed within the Government fee structure. So, I wanted to thank you so much for that. Again, I am told the NG-CDF Board is working on a circular allowing us to present project proposals in good time courtesy of your intervention. I also wanted to ask you to intervene, now that we are dealing with money matters, concerning the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing that is also charged with the responsibility of overseeing funds at Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA). We usually have a very protracted procurement process. It takes forever for a contractor to be found to do our local roads. Even as we look at the NG-CDF component, let the Committee fast-track the process with KeRRA, so that we do the procurement process in good time, funding is done in good time and we go to elections with our roads already taken care of. I thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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