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"content": "Mr. Chairman, Sir, I think the Chairman of the Committee on Implementation of the Constitution should have been fair to read out the intended amendment because what it provides for is that a person who immediately before the commencement of this Act was an officer of the former Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) and the word used is âshallâ, subject to the provision of the Constitution and any other written law be an officer of the Commission. So, in essence, what we are doing is that we are transferring every Tom, Dick and Harry to this new Commission. We are not giving them an opportunity to even check and find out whether for the time they have been in office, there are those who did not perform as expected. For that reason, I think it is important that the Commission also be given some leeway to deal with the officers who were there. We want a situation where we do not end up with the situation we had three years ago. So, I have a problem with that proposed amendment and I wish to oppose it."
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