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    "id": 1426917,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Onyonka",
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        "legal_name": "Onyonka Richard Momoima",
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    "content": "215 primary schools and all sorts of things. With that amount of money there is no way he is going to manage to run his constituency. Madam Temporary Speaker, my argument is that we be magnanimous and look at these options. If the people of Bobasi were to be given one constituency, the people of South Mugirango are given another, for me Kisii County would be sorted. Kisii County does not need an extra county. The resources would come, and they would substitute whatever else the county government would do. Indeed, if the resources that the Kisii County Government are getting are utilized, nobody in the county would really complain. The other critical issue is that we need to look at the structure of IEBC not in term of how it is going to be designed and the members who are going to be commissioners but on our responsibility as the Senate on devolution. How I wish that we could actually devolve the IEBC. I believe we have the capacity of making sure we change the structure constitutionally so that results do not have to be transmitted from Nairobi. If you have the IEBC being localized in Kisii County and an IEBC county commissioner who runs those elections and in fact, makes election announcements on the presidential, MPs, Senate, the Women Representatives and the Members of the County Assembly (MCAs), I do not see any contradiction in that at all. It would be much easier in that you can always pick those counties and look at it. Madam Temporary Speaker, if you look at the structure of the USA, that is what they do. In one day, they will tell you, they look at the trend. By the time the elections have been conducted and 25 of these counties have announced the results, you can tell who is going to win these elections. I also ask the Senate Majority Leader to consider, my honest observation Sen. Mungatana and I think Sen. Osotsi have said. Let us engage ourselves openly and sincerely on what we are going to do with technology. India has 1.2 billion voters. It has got only three commissioners and everything that India runs is so simple and technological. When I was the deputy minister for foreign affairs, I was once taken to go and observe. Even the machine itself is so plain. You just look at the candidate press on that and it gives you a confirmation note on who you voted for. These are the things that we must begin to look at and interrogate. When the elections are called and the presidential elections announced as I have heard my colleagues from the other side say, let these elections be believable and verifiable. Let us know who has won without doubts. Many of us who win or lose make our elections the bogeyman. Every election after five years, we are having disputes, violence, noise and screaming at each other. The truth is that this country deserves better. It can succeed in making sure that its elections are believable and verifiable that Kenyans can believe in. I do believe that with a few of the amendments here and there, our country should be able to conduct its elections as a model. I have been around here for quite a bit. I heard Sen. Mungatana - because of experience when he is down at the Pan-African Parliament, - mention the comments people give about Kenya. We have a good name. People respect us internationally The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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