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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Eseli",
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        "legal_name": "David Eseli Simiyu",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the other thing we are facing here is honesty. We do not have a lot of honesty in our electoral system. One way that we can instill that honesty is that we have to spend money and go electronic totally. That is one way that we can ensure that we reduce these conflicts. I hope that the Minister, when he comes to consolidate all these things, will be able to take care of some of these things that I am saying. This body must be able to command, trust and respect everybody in the country. If they do not command that respect and confidence of Kenyans, then they will be unable to run the elections properly. With this Bill, we have actually put potential problem to the Commission in the sense that we have given them a very dangerous thing to deal with; that is boundaries review. The people who were in Naivasha as they formulated the Constitution did us an injustice by not following Kriegler’s recommendations, that boundaries review should be separated from electoral commission. They failed to do so. Right now, we want to appoint another commission and charge them with the issue of completing the emotive issue of constituency demarcation. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, by doing so, we risk discrediting the new Commission, even before it conducts the 2012 General Election. Those people who will be dissatisfied with the outcome of the constituencies review will blame the new Commission, and will not have confidence in it. Why is it that we, Kenyans, do things in a very interesting way? For activities we can accomplish easily, we take the longest and most painful route to accomplish."
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