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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I want to also revisit what hon. A.B. Duale raised when he was moving this Bill, he raised concern over the number of cases and the varying decisions that are coming from this court that does not seem to establish any precedent. That is worrying. I want to agree with him that our Judiciary has not fully embraced reforms. We want to encourage that they need to embrace reforms. But on the other hand, I want to say that it is an indictment on our IEBC that they need to learn to do elections well. I want to reiterate a call that I have made ever since, that we need a new IEBC because it did not serve this country well and that is why we see this plethora of cases. Hon. Speaker, I want to say that I am happy with this Bill and I will not go to all the details, like the Mover and the Seconder have gone through; save that I want to be happy with the principles that are espoused in the Bill; the principles of access to justice, which the LSK stands for. I would also want to say that I am very happy with the principle of public service. I did my masters degree in Public Service Law. Indeed, I was in the Committee on Public Service. Therefore, even as a Member of Parliament, I actually practice that. However, I would want to move at a later date that it has not complied with the constitutional standard of ensuring gender equity. I know that some of the positions are elective and hence automatically ensuring gender equity is difficult, but we can cure that by law. I know that usually, at the LSK things are conducted through our AGM, but we will not have had it by the time we are moving the amendments. If we do, I will actually attend and move the case, but if not I would want to move it here because it is a constitutional requirement of the two-thirds majority. It must be articulated very specifically in the law."
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