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    "id": 478303,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kanyua",
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        "legal_name": "Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua",
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    "content": "On questions of misconduct, we do not have shared responsibility. The Petitioner needed to show us that the Chairperson - Mr. Isaac; the Vice-Chair – Madam Lilian and all the other Commissioners made mistakes that amounted to gross misconduct in how they handled the election. This ground completely failed. There is no time when, as Members of this House, we will be called upon to answer questions collectively. The Member for Nyeri County answers questions alone, the Member of Samburu County answers questions alone, and this is what was required of the IEBC. The petitioner should have done his work, which was to show grounds of gross misconduct for all of the ommissioners of the IEBC. He did not do this. He did not give us any evidence whatsoever that showed that any of the commissioners grossly misconducted themselves in how they handled the election. The final ground that this petitioner brought before the Committee was that of incompetence. Again, no evidence was given to the Committee to show incompetence on the part of the IEBC. On all of the three grounds, the Committee was completely convinced that the IEBC did what it was supposed to do and there was no reason whatsoever for the Committee to recommend to this House that a tribunal be set to commence removal proceedings. So, today we say that this House has got to confirm the work of the IEBC. But, we do have questions. Did the IEBC do a good job on the 2013 elections? The answer is a complete yes, a confounding yes; six elections were undertaken on the same day; hon. Uhuru Kenyatta was elected the President; a good job was done by the IEBC. With a lot of humility, we have to ask the second question: Did the IEBC do a perfect job? Of course not; the IEBC is not perfect; nobody is perfect; it could not have conducted a perfect election, and that is what this House has got to do. We did find that there is need to reform the IEBC. Is the Committee ready to engage in reform matters? Of course yes. Do we need to look at the law on the register and require that the register that is used elections is given to every Kenyan as happens in other countries? Of course we want to do that. But is that the question before us today? Not at all. The question before us today is whether the IEBC commissioners did a good job. On the question of reform. I want to confirm that the Committee--- I want to confirm that the President, when he was elected, did confirm to everybody that reforms have got to be undertaken. On the question of procurement, again many gaps do exist and we did find that in fact the IEBC commissioners were not allowed to play a direct 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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