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    "content": "- Member Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, by virtue of the constitutional Amendment No.17 of 1990, the ECK was given constitutional powers which had been taken away earlier on and re-established. Before that, we had the post of the supervisor of elections a Civil Servant under the Attorney-General’s Chambers. Elections, for quite some time, were conducted by district commissioners, until we had a low point in 1988 when we had the queue-voting system. In 1993, a further constitutional amendment appointed 12 commissioners for the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK). In 1997, following the Inter-Parliamentary Parties Group Bill (IPPG), we increased that number to 22. In 1998, the ECK was also allowed to establish its own Secretariat, which functioned until the 2007 General Elections. Following the problems that ensued after the elections of 2007, this House decided to disband ECK following the constitutional amendment early last year. The problems of the elections of 2007 had their genesis in the ECK. It is, indeed, fitting that the reforms that are required by this country have started with the ECK and, therefore, the need for us to establish a new Interim Independent Electoral Commission. The key purpose of this Commission is to re- establish the confidence of Kenyans in the institution that is going to be charged with the management of elections in this country. In view of the fact that this Motion had, indeed, been moved earlier, I do not wish to spend more time on this matter. I, therefore, move the Motion and ask Mr. Namwamba to second it."
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