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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogolla",
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I had not settled. I hope I will get back my minutes. I was saying that it is unfortunate that the country has been doing more or less the same thing that we are doing today. We have been doing this in the last many years. Every time we have elections, we come up with all manner of changes in the electoral laws. We do not learn much because all the time we get to this, the players are in front. Any time we have players in the front, it becomes difficult to come up with a proper legislation. This is happening at this particular time when we have all along talked about the issue of the IEBC. All these are issues of enforcement and administration, which are entirely in the hands of the IEBC. As of now, we are talking of coming up with a new Commission which must be in place in the next five months. If we are to meet the deadline that has been proposed in the legislation, we should have a new Commission in place by February. In the meantime, this must be done in five months. This is where I want to fault the Committee. We needed to come up with something like the one we have in the Fifth Schedule, indicating timelines within which we are supposed to do certain things. Right now the commissioners are supposed to be out of office, based on the negotiated arrangement. It is still not known how they are going to get out. Some crafting is still going on and this must happen in the five months period. If it does not happen, what will happen?"
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