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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to move:- THAT, the Senate adopts the Report of the Joint Parliamentary Select Committee on matters relating to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) laid on the Table of the Senate on Thursday, 18th August, 2016. I beg to move this Motion on behalf of the Committee and the Co-Chair, Sen. Murungi with whom I had the privilege and honour to co-chair the Committee. I commend and appreciate the work done by the Committee and each Member of the Committee individually. We had a Committee consisting of Members of the Senate and the National Assembly. Without mentioning each and every Member of the Committee, I register my appreciation to each one of them. If you look at the report, there was 100 per cent attendance by each Member on each occasion that we sat. A Member may have walked out for a moment or a few minutes but on each and every day that we sat, all the Member of the Committee took part in the proceedings. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also want to register my appreciation to the leadership of the coalitions. As you know, the Motion that was passed respectively by the National Assembly and the Senate was as a result of consultations between the leaders of the coalitions, Jubilee and CORD. For those who thought that the Committee was working on a partisan basis; from the very beginning, even in drafting the Motion that was passed by the National Assembly and the Senate, the leadership of this country both in Government and in the CORD coalition, consulted and came up with the text that constituted the work of this Committee. The reason why I want to register my appreciation to the leadership of both coalitions is; when initially this matter arose, the only question on the table before the political formations in the country as exemplified by the various political activities prior to this Motion was the question of the constitution of the IEBC. The Motion originally that was to come to this House was based on the question of determining the vacation from office of the commissioners. However, through consultations that were made strenuously and overtime between the leadership of both coalitions – you realise from the Motion that the leadership of the coalitions decided that the mandate of the commission should go beyond mere consideration of the vacation from office of the commissioners. In consideration was also the question of the secretariat and the electoral process and law; not only for the purposes of the elections in August, 2017 but also to ensure that the elections that we hold meet the constitutional standards of accuracy, verifiability, transparency and accountability. All those words are in the Constitution. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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