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    "speaker_name": "Mr. George Nyamweya",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to take over from where Dr. Khalwale had stopped. If we do not bring an amendment to streamline the IEBC, it has a mandate under the Constitution, but under the Act, we have given the mandate to the CEO. That is truly where the problem is. This is because we now have two centres of power. Literally, you can get a situation where the CEO announces somebody as the President and the Chairman announcing somebody else as the President. It is as serious as that. I want to ask the Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs to very speedily bring an amendment for us to align the performance of the IEBC. It is clear to me that they are not really prepared to hold an election. We have not even yet started voter registration. They had said that by September, we would have started this. Clearly, we are not going to be ready even by the end of September. How then do you seriously think that by the time we get to next year, we will be ready to hold credible elections? We are doing these strange things in Kenya. We want to do everything at the last minute and at night time we are wachawis. This is because we are forced to sit here up to midnight when we have not even read these Bills or laws and then we are bulldozed into saying so in the public interest. We are forced to say things that put us in this position. This is what is going to happen unless the Minister sits down in the Cabinet and also with all stakeholders and ask what we need in order to prepare the country for elections. We need to put aside all other things so that we have the necessary laws, rules and regulations that can enable us hold a credible election. If we do not do so, unfortunately, the life of Parliament expires and there would be nobody to recall it. If we are not able to hold elections, what have you asked yourselves? What will happen to the country? There will be no Parliament and no way of legislating new laws. The President will be stuck there. He will not be able to go home even if he wanted to because how do you get in the next one? Surely, the reason for us to take time off and prepare ourselves--- Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, with those few words, I support. I would also like to ask the Minister to quickly bring amendments for us to deal with the IEBC. Otherwise we are going to have a very serious crisis."
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