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    "id": 401554,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, with your permission, I rise to request for a Statement from the Standing Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights. The Statement that I request is in the following terms: Knowing the high standards of integrity, transparency and accountability which are required of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) and the central place which the Commission together with the Judiciary occupy as pillars of democracy and justice, is the Government satisfied that the IEBC as presently constituted and with the problems and challenges facing it including prosecutions undertaken against its senior members, that it can still discharge its constitutional and legal mandate including the conduct of general elections in 2017? Secondly, since the commissioners were appointed to serve on a full-time basis and on account of Article 10 of the Constitution with the expectation that with the conduct of free and fair elections, there will be no corruption and the elections must be administered in an impartial, neutral, efficient, accurate and accountable manner, is the Government satisfied that the Commission has the competence, capacity, independence and integrity to meet this and other ethical and guiding principles of leadership? Thirdly, has the Government taken note of reports emanating from the UK’s Serious Fraud Office that election authorities in Kenya were recipients of bribes from a supplier The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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