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    "content": "County, I do not see any registration. They have said that the base for registration is from the constituency. These are enormous areas in size. How do we expect people to travel 100 kilometres to the constituency headquarters to be registered as voters? You cannot forgive this; that the Constitution provides for continuous registration. I want to ask the Jubilee Government; unless it intends to rig these elections, let there be equal registration of voters across the country. We know that there are some areas where even voter cards are being sent to schools for them to get voter cards while in other areas, they are not, and this is what happened last time. We know that some constituencies had many voter registration kits while in others, five polling stations were given one kit, while others had one each. This will not be allowed this time round and I would like to appeal as early as now that this matter be corrected. We want to see enough funds allocated to the IEBC in order to do thorough registration of voters throughout the country. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the issue of the Auditor-General’s Office has been touched on by the previous speakers. We cannot emphasize this more. As we speak, we do not have up to date audit reports of our counties. They did very well during the first three months and they submitted some reports but we decry the misuse or misapplication of funds in our counties. But this is purely based on what we hear - rumours - and what we see. We would like the Auditor-General to ensure that he provides us with tools for oversight. One of the most important tools is audit; we want counties to be audited in time and the audit report not to be given after two years when the horse has already bolted. We want to know what happened and what is happening right now in our counties. We see things that we do not like yet we cannot challenge them because we do not have audit reports. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the issue of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) is shameful. For all these years we have attempted to set up a body that will ensure that corruption is reduced, if not eliminated. Why is it that we get people convicted out there having bribed Kenyans and we do nothing about it? Yesterday, Americans were convicted for bribing Kenyans at the tyre company and this company was fined. The other day, we had “Chickengate” Scandal. We are victims of corruption. It is our money that has been taken and yet we do nothing about it. It is those people who have given bribes who are being punished for giving us bribes yet with us receiving, taxpayers’ money having been wasted, nobody raises a finger. If the EACC is not able to investigate and come ahead of those other people, it might as well be wound up because as we speak, they are not doing enough. They keep on telling us “we are going to deal with Anglo Leasing in two or maybe three weeks.” Why do you have to announce to us? We want to read that, today, the people involved in Anglo Leasing scandal have been arrested and charged. But you keep on saying: “We are going to arrest five, we are going to arrest three; files are ready;” you do not have to tell us all that; just go to court and present your case! This is one body that has failed Kenyans miserably despite its importance in the country."
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