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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kisang",
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    "content": "eventually appoint people to the IEBC like the four who almost burnt the country. It is important to get persons of integrity who will interview and vet properly. Mr. Speaker, Sir, on the one position for the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC), I believe it is important that we have two so that the Minority Side produces one and the Majority Side produces one. The LSK are not very important here because even in the laws that we passed in the National Assembly in the last Parliament, they said everywhere that you must have a lawyer. Why can we not remove the nominee from LSK and add to Parliamentary Service Commission and then we put a rider that one of them must be a lawyer, to take care of lawyers if we need legal expertise in this Selection Panel? This is why I believe needs to be done. Regarding the Inter-religious Council of Kenya, we know the country is 80 per cent Christian and others are 20 per cent. We should not specify. Let us give them the leeway to choose. Maybe they can choose a Catholic or Protestant this time and next time, they can choose a Muslim or Hindu to represent the Inter-religious Council of Kenya in this Selection Panel. The problem that we have in the country is not the commissioners or the Selection Panel. The issue is that we do not accept election results. People do not accept when they are defeated. It is good that if you do not win, you accept and move on. We are 67 in this House and there are 47 elected Senators. There are many who contested and lost and they accepted. The issue is at the presidency level at the top, where people do not accept the outcome of the elections. The IEBC has embraced technology. We currently have a President because of technology. If there was no technology, those who went to the Bomas of Kenya would have changed the results but we had the results way before and it was very difficult for anybody to manipulate the results and declare somebody who had no majority of the votes. It is because of the technology that IEBC has embraced. This is the way to go. In fact, eventually, if it is possible, in the course of the term of this Parliament, we need to encourage parties to also use technology when they are doing their primaries. There are many issues across the political divide when it comes to the party primaries. Mr. Speaker, Sir, let us debate soberly and agree. I propose that the Chairperson of the Committee on Justice, Legal and Human Rights, Sen. Sigei, if there are amendments that you will bring in the afternoon, you can drop the nominee from LSK and move it to the Parliamentary Service Commission. I believe Members will agree, so long as you put a rider that that one Member should be a lawyer. This particular Member will give legal advice to the Selection Panel as they interview Commissioners of IEBC."
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