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    "id": 683937,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Shaban",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Naomi Namsi Shaban",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, as a Member of the Joint Parliamentary Select Committee on IEBC, I beg to give notice of the following Motion:- THAT, pursuant to the resolution of the House on 6th July 2016 regarding the establishment of a Joint Parliamentary Select Committee on matters relating to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), and Paragraphs 7 and 8 of the Houses of Parliament Joint Sittings Rules, this House: (i) Adopts the Report of the Committee laid on the Table of the House on Thursday, 18th August, 2016; (ii) Notes the recommendations of the Committee regarding:- (a) allegations against commissioners and the secretariat of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, specifically on credibility, impartiality, integrity and independence; (b) legal mechanisms for the vacation from office of the current commissioners and the secretariat of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, in accordance with the Constitution; (c) legal, policy and institutional reforms to strengthen the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission so as to ensure the August, 2017 elections are free and fair and are administered in an impartial, efficient, simple, accurate, verifiable, secure, accountable and transparent manner; and, (d) legal, policy and institutional reforms to improve the electoral system and processes so as to ensure the August, 2017 elections are free and fair and are administered in an impartial, efficient, simple, accurate, verifiable, secure, accountable and transparent manner. (iii)Resolves to establish a mechanism by which it shall oversight the implementation of the recommendations in the Report and the electoral processes until the 2017 General Elections. 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."
}