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    "id": 1174339,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Roysambu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Isaac Ndirangu",
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Waihenya Ndirangu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I beg to second the adoption of the Committee’s Report by the House. My Chairman has adequately canvassed the legal grounds for the rejection of these Draft Regulations. I therefore need not to over-emphasise or repeat the legal grounding for the rejection of these Draft Regulations. I only wish to cite the issue of voter registration and the Draft Regulations concerning voter registration. We know that the IEBC has already concluded voter registration. In fact, last week, they had opened the registers for checking by Kenyans and those who wanted to confirm whether they are still registered or whether there are anomalies, were invited. That exercise has been conducted. So, we would be out of time even if we did these rules. Another issue that led the Committee to reject these Draft Regulations is public participation. Our Constitution enshrines the requirement of public participation for all issues that are going to affect the operations of the IEBC. So, it would be unfair for this House to go ahead and endorse Draft Regulations which Kenyans have not been sufficiently canvassed or participated or issued their memoranda. In that spirit, we wish to reject these rules. It is not that the IEBC has no existing rules. Already, the IEBC has existing legal infrastructure and a regulatory framework to sufficiently conduct free and fair elections like it has done in the last two general elections. So our Committee has decided that rather than be seen to be rushing the passage of these draft regulations, which might allow suspicion that the Commission is out to do some mischief, it is better that we reject them. That is why I am seconding this Motion that requires the House to reject the draft regulations. I beg the House to agree with the report of the Committee. I beg to second. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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