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    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "the courts will be fulfilled this afternoon, if this House agrees with the report. By the end of the day, IEBC will be fully constituted, if the House approves the Motion. I really want to ask the House to do that. I am also happy that this Committee, for the first time, did not receive any memorandum touching on any of the four individuals. That translates into their integrity being above board. I hope they maintain that. This House failed to enact the law that would have set the ball rolling for the recruitment of the four commissioners. Now we are at the tail end and we have a Commission that will be fully constituted. I was part of the 2007 general election. We knew what happened. We had many commissions and the Kriegler Report, which is now in many shelves. The IEBC and political players must relook at the recommendations given in the 2008 Kriegler Report. I am sure a lot of the recommendations will improve the management of the election system in our country. This House must go ahead and pass legislation to the effect that we do not give these kinds of jobs to cowards, so that when the seat is too hot you take the next flight. That should not be the case. Four commissioners resigned. One took off at the wee hours of the most controversial elections in 2017. The other three went to a hotel along Harambee Avenue and just resigned. If you are a commissioner, do not put the country in a crisis. You must uphold and protect the position given to you under the Constitution. I was so happy the Committee asked these nominees whether they would run away, and they all answered in the negative. Let me come to a very critical point. The people of this country are being cheated that the Constitution gives the IEBC the power to conduct delimitation of boundaries, and the courts have upheld that position. It is not a group sitting at a corner and calling themselves the BBI. It is not the President as the head of the Executive. It is not the Judiciary. It is not Parliament. It is under Article 89(4) of the Constitution. It says delimitation will be done between eight and 12 years. Let me go on record. The Constitution says delimitation cannot be done one year to a general election. So, the current IEBC cannot conduct delimitation. They will violate Article 89(4) of the Constitution. There is this story of some constituencies disappearing. No constituency is disappearing. That matter can only be discussed when a review of boundaries is being done. The next review will be 12 years from 2012 when the last review was done. And that is 2024. All these 290 constituencies will exist. Do not go to court. Do not waste your time. Do not cheat the people. How do you delimit? You delimit constituencies using various parameters, namely: population, land size, poverty index, and infrastructure. There are people who are telling us in this country about population. Give us a break! We are not visitors. We belong to this country. We occupy 75 per cent of the land mass. North Horr Constituency alone with one Member of Parliament is equivalent to the former Central, Western and Nairobi Provinces combined. We should tell the country the truth. You cannot tell us about unity, resource allocation and the money that goes to the devolved systems. We did not get it as a favour, but through provisions given to us in the Constitution. Why are we not discussing the 85 per cent of the money that remains with the National Treasury? The discussion about resources is a very healthy one. As we discuss the 15 per cent that goes to the counties, we should also discuss the 85 per cent that remains with the National Government. We must have an honest and candid conversation. Nobody is a visitor to another one. Everyone is in this House and in this country to defend his community. I have no reason and apology to speak for the Somali community in this country. I have no apology. You should also speak for your community and we must all be defended by the Constitution. The Constitution gave everybody devolution. If you want resources and want us 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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