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    "id": 670667,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kipyegon",
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        "id": 1453,
        "legal_name": "Johana Ngeno Kipyegon",
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    "content": "process in this country has been the epitome of all the bad things this country has been known for. The electoral process in this country has failed to address the fundamental matter, which is free and fair elections. Looking at other countries, I do not understand because, maybe, Kenyan politics are very competitive and people die to get them. The only thing which should be the least controversial in any democracy is an electoral process. We can all remember 2007, where we saw what happened both in the national and constitutional level, yet among the recommendations to the electoral body and process is the Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) machines which were meant to cure the worries which many Kenyans had. I sit in the tender committee. It is absurd. We were told that in the last elections, some machines were never opened and nobody ever fed the information which was supposed to appear at the polling stations. We were even told that people knew that those machines were not going to work for two hours. They still imported them and duped Kenyans that they were going to work. We were sponsored by IEBC to visit South Africa and observe their elections. Their process is so simple. They have a machine like the ones used in supermarkets where you swipe your card. If you do not appear, you do not vote. Once you swipe, you vote once. Those are machines which can stay for more than three to four days without being recharged. It is the same commission which sponsored us to go and observe and yet, they cannot bring such machines to this country. It is because the people who vie for the positions do not want to have a transparent election in this country. Otherwise, we are killing those commissioners for nothing. It is the Executive, the Opposition and especially those big people, who do not want to have a transparent election. Otherwise, why would you purchase equipment which you know will not even last for two hours? We have a system in this country which is meant to look at how those machines work. I support the Select Committee because I am a Kenyan who does not want to see this country deteriorate into a civil war; see people die and the country burning. But, to be honest, if you were to read the Constitution, Article 251(2), it will tell you the exact procedure that is supposed to be followed on removal of any independent office holder or commissioner. There are no two ways about it, it is only one way - a petition to Parliament. Just like my brother has said, I am also expecting this Select Committee not to do a public relations exercise but, at the end of the day, bring a petition to this House on the removal of IEBC Commissioners because there are no two ways about it. Hon. Deputy Speaker, unless this Committee is intending to bring a Motion or an amendment to the Constitution, Article 251 (2) states:- “A person desiring the removal of a member of a commission or of a holder of an independent office on any ground specified in clause (1) may present a petition to the National Assembly, setting out the alleged facts constituting that ground.”"
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