{"id":1374034,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1374034/?format=json","text_counter":115,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Cheruiyot","speaker_title":"The Senate Majority Leader","speaker":{"id":13165,"legal_name":"Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot","slug":"aaron-cheruiyot"},"content":"There is a fallacious thinking in this country that elections are just about politicians. In fact, it is more about other Kenyans than us politicians. We form a very small minority. Yet sometimes when you are doing inclusion of IEBC selection panel and who gets to sit in IEBC, we think only about the political class. There is a better proposal on how to form the selection panel and growing the number. Presently, there are seven members of the selection panel, four from Parliament, two from inter-religious bodies and one from Law Society of Kenya (LSK). That makes it seven. We felt that there was a better way of handling it."}