{"id":685971,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/685971/?format=json","text_counter":204,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. (Dr.) Shaban","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":139,"legal_name":"Naomi Namsi Shaban","slug":"naomi-shaban"},"content":"National Assembly and the Clerk of the Senate for the support extended to the Committee in the execution of its mandate. The Committee further extends its appreciation to the members of the public and the various institutions and organisations that appeared before it or submitted memoranda to the Committee for their well-researched and eloquent submissions in this matter. The Committee also appreciates the technical support accorded by the Office of the Attorney-General, the Office of DPP, the Judiciary, the Kenya Law Reform Commission (KLRC), the IEBC and the Computer Society of Kenya (CSK). The Committee also benefitted immensely from the Panel of Experts and the joint rapporteurs who worked with the Committee throughout the process. The Committee wishes to acknowledge all the members of the public who have continued to keenly follow the proceedings of the Committee and the media who ensured that the country remained updated at all times. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I, therefore, beg to move that this House:- (i) adopts the Report of the Committee laid on the Table of the House on Thursday, 18th August, 2016; (ii) notes the recommendationns of the Committee regarding: (a) allegations against Commissioners and the Secretariat of the IEBC, specifically on credibility, impartiality, integrity and independence; (b) legal mechanisms for the vacation from office of the current commissioners and the secretariat of the IEBC, in accordance with the Constitution; (c) legal, policy and institutional reforms to strengthen the IEBC 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, fair, accountable and transparent manner. (iii) resolves to establish a mechanism by which it shall oversee the implementation of the recommendations of the Report and the electoral processes until the 2017 General Election. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move. As I sit down, I ask my colleague, Hon. (Dr.) David Eseli, to second this Special Motion."}