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    "id": 1406403,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": "First, I appreciate where we have come from knowing very well that in 2013 when we came to 11th Parliament, we went through a process but later found ourselves in the same challenges. We had to come in and remove IEBC at that time and reconstitute it. A process we went through at Windsor Hotel then. It led to our team of IEBC leaving office. After that, we have continued as a country to always have the same challenges. One of the things we need to ask ourselves before we do this is: is there a time we shall appreciate that sometimes it is all of us politicians who find ourselves messing up our own institutions by trying to find things to work better? For the future, we need to ask ourselves that question. We have gone through a crucial process where every time we have young people who will always fall, they become “fallen soldiers”. I will call them thus. I am hoping as we bring these amendments, we are carrying in very serious thoughts and reflecting on what we have gone through. I appreciate the proposed amendments because our election cycles have remained the same. The IEBC has six main functions, one of which is working closely with political parties. The political parties handle nominations, and it is the IEBC's responsibility to regulate these processes. If IEBC works closely with political parties, we will have a calm country. Streamlining the nomination process will lead to free and fair elections. Therefore, this process should also consider the Political Parties Act. It is crucial to make these amendments because our processes often end up in a quagmire."
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