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    "id": 1375495,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugunja, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "I want to summarise my points because 10 minutes is too short. Some of the takeaways in the Report are as follows. One is the roadmap towards reconstitution of the IEBC. The second one is the governance of political parties and their management. There is the issue of audit of the Elections. We have agreed on this matter to establish within 21 days, upon the adoption of this report, a panel consisting of three persons from each side to develop the Terms of Reference (TORs) that will guide this audit process. I want to leave it to that panel to establish these TORs. We must also talk about the Ward Development Fund but more importantly, the matter of the increase of the allocation of the national revenues to the counties from the current minimum of 15 to 20 per cent. Those are some of the takeaways. Back to the question of the IEBC, I keep saying time and again that elections in this country, just like it is in this part of the world, is a matter of life and death, believe me or not. Therefore, the body that is to be charged with the responsibility of managing elections must be, like Ceasar’s wife, beyond reproach and enjoy the confidence of the wider majority of the populace. It must enjoy the confidence of the key players in the electoral process. That is what informed the NADCO recommendation to restructure the IEBC, restart the process of appointing the IEBC commissioners, recommend specific amendments to the Elections Act, the IEBC Act and indeed the Constitution. We inadequately resolved that never again should the country go back to where it was few weeks or so before the establishment of the NADCO. That never again should we have a situation where the IEBC would be split down the middle at the critical moment of announcing the results of presidential elections. It was never the intention of the framers of our Constitution, and indeed Kenyans when they adopted this Constitution in 2010, that a body charged with the onerous responsibility of managing elections would be split in the middle at the critical stage of announcing presidential election results. The raft of recommendations in this report are, among other things, aimed at curing that very serious problem that has come to be associated with Kenya only. The issue of the not more than two-third gender principle has been adequately captured in the report. It was our view in NADCO that since the time was not adequate and there was a multisectoral working group dealing with that issue, we give it time to complete its work and compile a report which would be treated as part of the NADCO... Within the letter and the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
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