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    "content": "to check why this illegality occurred in the petition by Nick Salat against the Bomet Senator. Mr. Speaker, Sir, on Sen. Obure’s question, I must admit that the statement did not give the statistics that he has requested for. I undertake that we will have those statistics in terms of numbers of people registered since they started last week. Sen. Kagwe is a Member of the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget like Sen. Billow and myself. So, they knew what happened during the budgeting. It is unfortunate that when we, as a Senate, recommended that the IEBC should be given the money they requested for, which was about Kshs5 billion, the National Assembly reduced their budget. Sen. Kagwe and Sen. Billow are aware that this is a problem that, we, as the Senate, must address. That is the reason why registration officers all over the country are sitting and twiddling their fingers because they have no money to even leave their offices. So, this is a problem that we should now ask the Chairperson of the Committee of Finance, Commerce and Budget to interrogate the National Treasury as to why they have, in fact, starved this Commission of its funding like they have requested in the past. The Budget Policy Statement (BPS) that was before this House explains why we have those constraints, but we will go into the details. Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo, I can tell you that the registration of IDs has very little to do with the registration of voters. There are two different offices. If necessary, we can summon the Registrar of Persons and the director to explain to us what is happening on the ground. However, I am aware the National Registration Office got a quarter of its budget. We are asking for a cow to be milked when it has no milk. The Chairperson of the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget is here and he knows that without a budget, even the IDs will not be issued. Mr. Speaker, Sir, for a greater debate on finance, please, allow us to see the Committee of Finance, Commerce and Budget to interrogate this matter a little further because that is our docket and not even the docket of the Committee on Legal affairs and Human rights. On the issue raised by Sen. Musila, we received this communication in October. We could not at that time interrogate why it did not start in November. Just like everything that has happened in the Jubilee Government, everything has delayed. May be it is because of the Euro bond saga."
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