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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilgoris, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Sunkuli",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I wish to make a few remarks in support of this Bill. I join my colleagues in saying that the work of the IEBC should not stop if commissioners have not yet been gazetted. In every organisation, the political wing is not usually as important as the civil service part. That is why governments like those in Italy have always changed so rapidly yet they are still running because there are permanent civil servants employed to run the organisation. We should always say that the IEBC is also in place if officials are in place. The law should say that a certain cadre of IEBC civil servants could become agents of necessity for the organisation. That, I fully support. My second point regards the review of constituency boundaries. It is indeed true that we should save the constituencies in danger of being scrapped because of their population. I contend that we should stop dishing out things based on population size in this republic. It is not the right thing to do. In the past we have adopted a policy of population control in Kenya which I have serious issues with. There was a time they were saying that if you have a smaller family, you would be doing very well and the Government would support you for that. Because of that, some of our communities which already had discipline in terms of population kept their population low. While we did that, the same people who were drafting the policy were busy 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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