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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emurua Dikirr, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Johana Kipyegon",
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    "content": "Among my contentions with the proposals made by this committee is IEBC. If it were possible, I would wish that we allowed IEBC to work like courts. Sometimes we believe that if we appointed members from parties as representatives in IEBC, maybe it would do some justice. It has been done before but nothing came out of it. If you look at the courts, the Chief Justice and the rest of the Supreme Court judges are appointed. They go through rigorous interviews and eventually get appointed to serve in those courts. They are never seen to be serving a particular person, whether it is the ruling Government or the Opposition. The Supreme Court has always been universal in its rulings. That is because we have sober people who are held in high esteem in those positions. I do not understand why we cannot also afford the same opportunity to IEBC Commissioners. Let us allow IEBC officials to go through the same rigorous interviews as Supreme Court Judges and allow them to work. The day we allow parties to propose candidates to those positions, it will be the end of IEBC – which is supposed to be an independent Commission. Additionally, the proposal to have NG-CDF and NGAAF in our supreme law is very important. Their functions have always been vital to us and to the people we serve. On the question of boundaries, I do not know how we are going to do it but at times our taxpayers are overburdened. If we want to correctly serve our people, let us increase funds to the constituencies. This can be done using the one-man one-shilling formula. That will serve our country. We do not have to bury our heads in the sand. It is a reality. There are constituencies with a population of over 300,000 while others have only 20,000. On the question of Senators, I do not mind the seven-year or even ten-year term. After all, they are elders. We do not have any problems. Kindly, add me more minutes to speak on the two-thirds gender rule. I have never understood why we cannot use a 50-50 per cent rule on appointive positions. The elective positions are different because they depend on what people want. How do you force people to elect leaders based on gender? Given an opportunity, I would propose that this House returns to the parliamentary system of governance where we had ministers sitting here and were answerable to the people who elected them. If I get the opportunity, I will amend this proposal to include Cabinet Secretaries. Let us reintroduce the position of the Prime Minister, who will also sit in this House. We should have four strong positions in the country: the President, the Prime Minister, the Vice-President and the Leader of the Opposition Party. These positions will serve the country correctly. I hope to bring an amendment to that effect."
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