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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mututho",
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        "legal_name": "John Michael Njenga Mututho",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, if you give it to the Executive, then you are giving it to one person, the CEO. This is because we do not have a yardstick to measure power once we go to that level. The CEO will be able to move his directors or officers and that is what I find wrong. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other point which I find to be a major weakness, is that I have reviewed all the election laws and all similar commissions around the world, but this one of ours, as meticulous as it may look, lacks one active ingredient; opinion polls before and after. That chapter should be introduced so that people who decided to give opinion polls and make John Mututho imagine that he can be the next president by scoring 65 per cent, that must be checked. I have looked at Australian law and all the European laws and found that opinion polls are part of the polling process and should be considered in this particular Bill. If you look through what these laws have been talking about, nearly 50 per cent of all opinion polls around the world have been proven to be wrong. But the net effect is that they cause so much suffering to the recipients to an extent that they actually influence elections. I want to applaud one good thing that has happened with the current Interim Independent Electoral Commission of Kenya; that is the transparent box. We should now in this particular Bill, remove all doubts and generate the ballot from the finger prints. I am saying this because the issue of stuffing of ballot boxes was recorded in Nigeria the other day. The issue of ballot boxes and ballot boxes manufactured in backyard and in the backstreets is such a serious issue. We need to make it very difficult for these people to generate adequate ballot boxes to cause a difference. It is a fact. I was saying here without fear that I have been a victim about twice or thrice. I have seen with my own eyes, ballot papers being stuffed in those black boxes. It is very painful, particularly when supervised by the Government. I have seen Ministers and painfully so, do it, on behalf of their preferred candidates."
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