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    "content": "on IEBC. Anybody who thinks, like Sen. (Dr.) Machage and others, that the IEBC were condemned for something they did not do, should read page 139 which shows that an audit done by the IEBC, the experts of CORD and Jubilee Party show that the Biometric Voter Registration Kits (BVR) that we purchased were dysfunctional. The servers and the software that were purchased were also dysfunctional. The NOKIA phones that they purchased were dysfunctional too yet these cost the country Kshs7.2 billion. Which part of minorities are you talking about? This is called failure. If this can happen and yet we did not have bloodshed, we should thank our lucky gods that somehow they moved on. We cannot allow this to happen. This is called incompetence. It is a ground for removal. They are persons who are hired to do a job and are given a job that they cannot do it. It is that simple. On the question of transmission, we went to great lengths to ensure that we do not have the bottle necks that happened in the last election. We have a Report commissioned by Independent Elections and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) and I ask the Senators to go and read the material we have received; a report of the International Foundation for Electoral System (IFES) that demonstrates that the results transmission system could not work hence the elaborate system. A gentleman by the name Mr. Okiya Omtatah, in his submission, says this country cannot have a simple, accurate and verifiable election if it is manual. It is inconsistent. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you notice even simple systems offices use technology. If Kenya cannot manage its elections in the manner we have proposed, we are not a republic but just an organization of people who pretend to be organized. In the Committee, it was proposed that the election offences that were muddled up and contained in the Elections Act be separated and that has been done well. It is the persons contesting elections and public officers who think they will use their public office to compromise elections. Public officers or election security organs who think they will participate in the elections should be forewarned. Just like Sen. Wako has proposed, the first Joint Select Committee--- Just add me five minutes."
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