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    "id": 1209653,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mumma",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this chance. I am a Member of the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights and I attended all the sessions where these amendments were discussed. I want to thank our Chairperson, who attended all the sessions, and the Members for the robust debate that we had on this Bill. I prepared a Minority Report. However, for some reason or the other, the Secretariat told me today at 9.20 a.m. that they had not submitted my Minority Report. However, I am glad that the Floor is open for us to discuss. My colleagues in the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights are aware that I had a slightly different decision from what they had. This Selection Panel is the most important panel in this country because it helps select the body that makes the biggest political decisions in this country. The body’s decisions can plunge us into problems or hold us up. We have had problems with nearly every IEBC on record, except for the one that was picked after the selection by the Inter- Parties Parliamentary Group (IPPG). The appointment of commissioners of IEBC is political even though the Constitution states that they are supposed to be neutral people. The Selection Panel needs to balance the political interest of all political players in the country in order for there to be peace. If it will be seen to be politically leaning on one side and not the other from the word go, then we will have a problem. The people they will bring, even if they have integrity, will not be seen to have integrity. I want to urge Members of this House to take this job seriously. They should not hurry just because we want to put this panel in place just for us to end up with a Committee that is not acceptable to Kenyans. In that discussion, I suggested that we increase the members to nine for us to take into account all the public contribution that we have received suggesting that we bring other players on board. We were given an opinion that I disagreed with which said that we cannot amend the numbers from seven to nine. I conceded on that particular issue, but"
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