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    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to agree with Hon. Mbadi that a lot appears to be happening at the IEBC. Parliament, through its relevant Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, should be seized of it. Parliament is also hearing of it like other people. We are talking of voter registration. Polling stations have not been established. We do not know which new ones have been established. We are being told of voter projections. We do not know what they are based on. We do not know the extent to which the IEBC is already interacting with the Civil Registration Bureau so that there will be people to be registered. We only hear the IEBC is meeting the National Treasury, not knowing that whatever is discussed there is ultimately to be ratified or approved by this Parliament, if they are to get any money. I want to blame ourselves in the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs in the first instance. The truth is that we should not be waiting for the IEBC to be lamenting there. We are the Committee of this Parliament which should be taking audit and walking the path with that institution under our charge on behalf of Parliament. So, I want to agree with Hon. Mbadi and the Members who have spoken. I am thinking, now that the IEBC is fully constituted, the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs should by now have sat with them and come up with the roadmap in terms of their preparedness around these issues. I am happy to report that I know, from insider information within the Committee, there is an intent to meet the IEBC, possibly within this week, with your permission, Hon. Speaker, so that the House can be duly updated and well guided in terms of the preparations we are having instead of hearing those things we are hearing out there."
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