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    "content": "institution within IEBC involving players that ensured that when IEBC was procuring election kits unethically, it would have been ironed out before it went too far. We would not be questioning the credibility of IEBC as we are doing now. As it happens, all these things were done and the elections were held. Things were done and elections were held. Subsequently, it is the office of the Auditor-General that during a post-mortem, as it usually does, has unearthed these things for discussion in the National Assembly. Therefore, this Committee that we are establishing will be able to use this material to bring to book the IEBC officers, both the commissioners and the secretariat. Talking about the findings that we are expecting from this Committee, there is plenty of evidence now in the public domain and, not just the Auditor-General’s Report, but volumes of papers have been written on the IEBC by scholars and others alike that analyse and document the crimes both economic and political that the current Commission committed. Therefore, I hope the Committee will not haggle too much over these issues. For example, the mandate No.2 (a) to enquire and delegations against the Independent and Elections Boundaries Commission (IEBC), Commissioners and the Secretariat (b) On the findings of (a) above, may recommend- I understand the question that was involved in framing this particular mandate because the Committee did not want to presuppose the innocence or culpability of the IEBC. However, there are certain things that are amenable to common sense. Kenyans, in general, would be very furious if the very persons, the very commissioners and the secretariat that have caused us so much pain are somehow still found fit to run the IEBC. This would be an exercise in futility. I strongly feel that one of the issues that this Committee should agree on very quickly is the fact that we do not want to spend too much time proving the innocence or culpability of the commissioners and so on. What we want to do is find out the extent to which these travesties were committed and so on. Therefore, recommend the action that will be taken."
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