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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, this is an important progress from the NADCO conversations. It is also a beacon of hope in the country because every year that we have gone to elections, we have come out more bruised as a nation than before. Therefore, I congratulate members of the NADCO, starting with the Co-Chairs, who midwifed production of the documents that led to informing pieces of legislation that we are going to see in this House, especially with regards to elections, electoral processes and electoral bodies. This is one of them. I support this Bill because one of the issues that we face as a country is that commissions that run elections seem to be above the law in the sense that offences that commissioners make sometimes are reduced to mere mistakes. However costly they are to the country, they are not held accountable in the eyes of the nation. In 2007, I was a young man in Form Two at Friends School Kamusinga. We experienced chaos and resultant deaths after those elections. If you can remember, there was an envelope that eventually went to the International Criminal Court (ICC). When eventually the names were revealed, there were police officers, politicians and public servants who were held accountable. However, there was nobody from the commission then that was the referee of the elections who was held accountable. 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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