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    "id": 1106879,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "That is not a matter that we can just let go. Therefore, I stand here to seek your intervention to have the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs intervene and invite the leadership of the IEBC. They will therefore, clearly tell us what they think this House has not done to help us have credible elections next year. That is not something we can gamble with. We know the consequences, if we do not properly conduct elections in this country. This country has faced those consequences in every electoral cycle. We cannot, again, sit and wait for the IEBC to make unsubstantiated claims. If at all there are facts that this House is sitting on some legislative proposals which the IEBC considers very critical in conducting elections next year, this House deserves to know and act accordingly. I request that you ask the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs to move with speed and invite the IEBC. Since that is the Committee that oversees the IEBC, if it is an issue of funding, it can be discussed with the National Treasury. Let the Treasury also be invited, so that we are clear that the IEBC has no excuse at all. We do not want excuses. Already I can see that, if we just keep quiet, chances are that the IEBC will again have excuses for conducting sham elections next year, which I am sure this House and this country are not ready for. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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