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    "id": 1406356,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Marakwet West, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Timothy Kipchumba",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, I also have a problem with the three-year limit for the CEO of the Commission. Three years is not enough to appoint a commissioner to serve in the IEBC. I will be proposing a six-year term, renewable once. We need what you call the institutional memory of that office. The IEBC commissioners serve and leave, but we need a CEO who has inducted staff. Therefore, I will be proposing a six-year contract for the CEO, renewable once. Hon. Temporary Speaker, as we sit in this House, remember that we have a constituency known as Banissa that lost a Member of Parliament. Since then, a by-election has not been held in that constituency because IEBC is not properly constituted as envisaged by the law. It is unfortunate. As we move this amendment, we must fast-track it so that that constituency can have a Member of Parliament who will sit in this House to legislate, represent, and offer oversight on behalf of the people of Banissa. Normally, when an advocate fails to appear before a court of law, he sends another advocate to hold a brief for him. That was never envisaged in terms of the election of a Member of Parliament. So, we need to fast-track this amendment, agree to the issues, and amend where necessary so that certain constituencies and wards that have lost MCAs can go to the ballot and elect their representatives to the county assemblies at the county level and to Parliament if it is at the national level. Hon. Speaker, I rest my case."
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