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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chepkong’a",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Kiprono Chepkonga",
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    "content": "(e) Use of multiple non-gazetted election voter registers on the day of the elections. Hon. Speaker, when we met as a Committee, considered all those issues and, just as background information, IEBC is a successor of the Interim Independent Electoral Commission (IIEC) which was a successor of the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) that was disbanded after the 2007 elections. They had been set up and established pursuant to Clause 41 (a) of the former Constitution, when dealing with the reforms of that time. The IEBC has been established pursuant to Article 88 (1) and the IEBC Act, No.9 of 2011.The vacancies in the IEBC were declared in the local dailies of 11th August, 2011. A total of 430 applicants applied for the position of members and four applied for the Chairperson’s position. In July, 2011, Parliament approved the appointment of the selection panel to the IEBC. The selection panel was mandated to shortlist applicants and forward three persons for appointment as Chairperson and thirteen persons for appointment as members. The panel conducted interviews and forwarded to His Excellency the President the three names for the position of Chairperson and 13 names for the position of members. The President, after consultations with the Right honorable Prime Minister, nominated nine persons for consideration by the National Assembly as Chairpersons and members of the IEBC through a Communication by the Speaker dated 25th October, 2011. The names and curricula vitae were forwarded to the Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee of the National Assembly to consider them. The House, thereafter, approved the nomination of the nine persons as per the Committee’s recommendations, namely, Ahmed Isaac Hassan as the Chairperson; Lilian Mahiri Zaja as the Vice-Chairperson and Eng. Abdulahi Sharawe, Thomas Letangule, Mohamed Alawi Hassan, Albert Camos Onyango Bwire, Kula Kalma Godana, Amb. Yussuf Nzibo and J. Muthoni Wangai as members. They were approved by the National Assembly as Commissioners to the IEBC. The Petition, therefore, seeks to remove those persons that were appointed in accordance with that process for serious violation of the Constitution and the laws of Kenya, gross misconduct in the performance of functions and their duties as commissioners and incompetence in the management of 2013 elections. I have clearly stated the facts that are being relied on in the Petition and the oral evidence that was adduced by the Petitioner when he appeared before the Committee when he was invited. I would like to state again that he relied on the procurement of the so-called Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) and the Electronic Voter Identification equipment during the last General Election which he alleges were in contravention of Article 201 and Article 10 of the Constitution. The documents were presented to the Supreme Court, that is, the Election Appeals and the rest for clarity. The responses by the IEBC, that is, the nine commissioners, including Chairperson, are available in Room 8. When they appeared before the Committee to make their own oral presentations with respect to the report they had presented to the Committee earlier, stated as follows:- The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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