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    "id": 1404579,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1404579/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugunja, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": " It is totally unreasonable to require two years to understand your work. If you give them a three-year term, they will only work for one year because they will need two years to learn. It does not make sense. What kind of absurdity is this? Thank you for that word, Hon. Thuku. If you cannot learn your work and deliver in three years, then you have no business accepting that work. Hon. Baya, you agree with me. I was a strategic manager in my previous life. I worked for a serious blue-chip company. In fact, I resigned as an expatriate during serious work to come and run for a parliamentary seat in 2013. As a strategic manager, if you cannot settle into a new role two years down the road, you better go home and look after your cows or goats. Stop wasting Kenyans’ time. Therefore, this provision must remain in the Bill. If you are appointed the CEO of the IEBC, serve for three years. If you serve Kenyans well, you can be given a second term of another three years. After that, you go home. In other words, an IEBC CEO will only superintend over one general election, not two or three. That is the import of this provision. Some people have made the IEBC their home. They have become so entrenched in the institution that you cannot do anything without their permission. They have created cartels within the IEBC secretariat. This Bill is meant to cure that mischief. Serve for three years, and if you are lucky and Kenyans feel you have done a good job, you get another three years, and then you go home. Create room for another Kenyan to serve. That provision has to remain in the Bill. The Bill will remain the same, but that one is a no-go area. The amendments proposed in this Bill are very progressive. If the House, in its wisdom, adopts them and passes this Bill as it is, this country will be better. We are a fledgling democracy, which is still maturing. Therefore, we must continually look at our processes, systems and legal infrastructure to allow our democracy to grow and mature for the benefit of the country, and both present and future generations. In conclusion, this Bill is a negotiated document. We are being asked to pass it with all its flaws without any thought of amendments. We can address typos here and there to clean up 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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