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    "content": "from other counties. I am sure that the 30 per cent was met. The problem in Nandi County is where people employ their own relatives. We have cases where a governor, Members of the CEC and directors employ their own relatives, girlfriends and concubines. Those are the problems we have in Nandi County. That did not come out from that report. Therefore, the NCIC has failed completely. We need a commission that is alive to the realities of the day. They should not engage in populist statements. We have seen some of the messes by this NCIC where they accuse politicians of committing hate speech. They invite them to record statements. But at the end of the day, when they go to their homes, they are received in a heroic manner. This beats the logic of asking them to record statements. To what end is the NCIC engaging in this kind of responsibility? The other day, we had a whole national debate on the issue of Moi University and the NCIC engaged in a populist manner. I agree a little bit with what they said. However, they jumped into the debate and some Members of the NCIC such as the Chairman and Commissioner Prof. Gitile J. Naituli told this country to its face without having facts with regard to the issue that the professor who had been appointed must be the Vice- Chancellor. That was not even the issue. They kept on quoting this when they appeared in breakfast shows on television saying that he must be appointed. They did not care to get the facts and to understand that this professor who they wanted to serve the full term which is three years, had not even applied for the job. It is not right for a member of the NCIC to go to public places and share his ignorance on a matter that he should be able to take time to understand. At times, we would expect that from politicians; to stoop that low and engage in such a game that displays their ignorance to the Kenyans in the streets. However, it is unacceptable for a Commissioner or the Chairperson to mislead a whole country. They must know that on matters of ethnicity, Kenyans hold them so high and what they say carries a lot of weight. What happens when what they say is an obvious error of fact and they want to stick to it? It is even worse when they continue to demonize institutions, counties and even profile counties in a negative way on things that the counties have not committed? Whereas I support Sen. Elachi’s amendment, I am a worried person because we are giving more mandates to a commission; an institution that has already failed to carry out its own existing mandate. We have had challenges between or within the border of Nandi and Kisumu counties. I am happy that the incoming Governor of Kisumu is in this House and God willing, I could be his counterpart on the other side. We have discussed with Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o on certain things that must be done along the border to sort out the recurrent problem on the border between Nandi and Kisumu counties. The last time we had a challenge within the border, the same Commission led by the Chairman Hon. Kaparo went to the region without consulting the Senators or the leadership from both sides just for you to be told one morning that Hon. Kaparo has just landed. They go there with no information. They ended up talking like laymen instead of discussing and providing direction as an authority in that particular matter. This country must get beyond the level of mediocrity that we see from members of commissions who are supposed to be experts in those areas and expected to carry out 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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