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    "id": 43234,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Abdikadir",
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        "legal_name": "Abdikadir Hussein Mohamed",
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    "content": "Let me also read the functions of the Commission. For example, the continuous registration, Section 88(4) of the Constitution. These are the functions of the IEBC, continuous registration of citizens as voters. If you told the Commission today, that part of that is policy and part of that is administrative, while the Constitution very clearly says that is a function for the Commission. How can you limit that function and say that the regular revisions of the voters rolls or part of that cannot be handled by the Commission because it policy or otherwise. That is really where our problem is. We are aware that there are commissions which have overstepped their mandates. We are aware that this causes a lot of friction in most commissions. The problem is: How would you, by statute, limit functions that are very clearly stated, for example voter education? If the Constitution says that it is the Commission’s function to carry out voter education, how can we, through a statute, say that, that bit on voter education is administrative and that it should not be a function of the Commission? That is really where our problem is."
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