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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Katoo",
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        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to make my comments in support of this Motion. Before I make those comments, let me say something on the preliminaries that have been said earlier. Members have been talking of this Motion not meeting the two-thirds gender threshold. That is neither here nor there because the Committee we will form will be a Committee of this House. We do not have a single Committee that has met that gender rule. It is because this House does not meet the two-thirds gender rule. That should not be an issue. Two, I also heard Members talking about some members of this Committee who are facing cases in court. I do not think that is an issue because those Members are members of other Parliamentary Committees of this House. If you really want them out of this Committee, start by removing them from the other Parliamentary Committees. We have had people going to court to challenge the membership of this Select Committee just because some Members in it are facing court cases. I do not think that is an issue. If you are casting aspersions on the integrity of a certain member of the Committee and say he has no integrity to sit in it, this Committee is just a creation of this House. It is not more special than this House. That is like saying those Members should not be in this House. Therefore, I think we should debate the Motion on its merits and stop the sideshows that are meant to derail what this country yearns for; that is, a reformed IEBC. The Motion talks of the need for an impartial IEBC. 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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