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    "id": 1404545,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "The Bill further proposes amendments to Section 6 of the IEBC Act to include experience in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and accounting as professional qualifications for appointment as a member of the IEBC. Members will agree with us that these thematic areas align, as I mentioned, with the function of IEBC and hence form a basis for qualifications for appointment as an IEBC commissioner. As I mentioned, we have seen commissioners in the past who may not have all the requisite skills and knowledge on matters of ICT. Our electoral process is largely technology-driven. We found it necessary to have commissioners with requisite knowledge in matters ICT and accounting. I must take this opportunity to state that I am an accountant, although that had nothing to do with the recommendations of the Committee, where Hon. Opiyo Wandayi also sat in as a budding young lawyer. They were well represented. I know it is a requirement that the chairman of the Commission be a lawyer. There was a back and forth within NADCO. Many people who made presentations before NADCO argued for the need for requisite skills in ICT and accounting so that we do not fight about tallying. Tallying is a summation of 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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