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    "id": 176537,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Maj-Gen. Nkaisserry",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Defence",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 192,
        "legal_name": "Joseph Kasaine Ole Nkaissery",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion. First of all, I would like to commend the Commission for bringing in very powerful 3910 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES December 4, 2008 recommendations. Our country was visited by a devil after the ECK announced fraudulent election results. The root cause of the problem early this year in this country was because of an incompetent ECK. One of the recommendations in the Report is that we should disband that Commission. I am happy and I am going to be very short so that we can take appropriate action, so that this Commission is disbanded even tomorrow. You realise that the problem of impunity has been with us since this country attained Independence, because the Executive continues to control and muzzle the independence of the ECK. Therefore, the recommendation by the Kriegler Commission was very important. Secondly, if we correct this, this country will never again have a problem of ethnicity, when it comes to elections. We should have a country which is cohesive enough, united and all the political parties abide by the law. So, this is a very important Report, which this House should adopt today. I am sure you know that in every game, the judge or referee is the sole judge of a fair game. In the last general Election, the ECK, as the referee, became a judge of an unfair game. Therefore, spectators rioted, and because of that we lost 1,300 people. We had IDPs to the tune of 500,000, just because of one referee. I just would like to say if the ECK is not in the Waki envelope - I do not know who is in it - as the real cause of the problem that Kriegler dealt with, then it should be put in there. I, therefore, support this Motion."
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