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    "content": "the final decision taken by IIBRC. That data representing the dissenting opinion is marked JLA(6). JLA(7) is a draft gazette notice representing a gazette notice request presented by IIBRC to the Government Printer. JLA(8) is the final Report of IIBRC presented to the Committee, and dated 27th November, 2010. It is titled: “Delimitation of Constituencies and Recommendations on Local Authorities Electoral Units and Administrative Boundaries for Districts and other Units”. That is JLA(8). The last annexure is JLA(9). It is a bulky bound record representing all written submissions that have been received from hon. Members of Parliament detailing what has been considered as issues outstanding on this matter. I want to invite hon. Members to take note of all those annexures. Some of them are bound and available at the Clerk’s desk for purposes of reference. That is because I will keep on referring to some of them. Those like this very bulk one is only one copy and so, copies, I believe, will be made available as soon as the Clerk’s Office is able to do so. All those annexures I have referred to constitute part of the Report that the Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs is inviting this House to consider. Specifically, this Report of the Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs is on the Report produced by IIBRC at the conclusion of its constitutional mandate. That Report has been clearly defined in the Report of the Committee on page 14 of this Report. Again, at a later stage, I will be clarifying why at page 14 of this Report, we have specifically gone into the details of defining exactly what we mean when we say “Report of the Interim Independent Boundaries Review Commission (IIBRC)”. Mr. Temporary Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in considering this matter, the Committee has agonized deeply; aware of the very serious competing interests in this matter. The Committee was very aware and took due note of the fact that the process conducted and concluded by IIBRC and the subsequent Report produced by that Commission attracted intense public interest. In equal measure, there were those who fully supported the work of that Commission and the product of its work. But there were those who had and expressed serious reservations on the work of that Commission and its product. So, this Committee has attempted to find a way out of those competing interests. We have attempted to do so in a manner that talks to the ends of justice and fairness. We have been guided by the principles that underpin the functioning of this Committee. But we have also given due regard to broad ends of justice. We have benefited from the spirit of eminent men like Hubert Humphrey, a one time US Senator and Vice-President of the USA who said once: “That unless there is liberty and justice for all, there is justice and liberty for none.” So, the challenge the Committee has had is how to ensure that in this process, everybody can see justice done and manifestly so. I will start by paying tribute to hon. Members of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs who have worked over time on this matter in close consultations with the Parliamentary Committee over-sighting the implementation of the Constitution. Allow me to applaud:- Hon. Njoroge. Baiya, MP – Vice-Chairman Hon. Abdikadir Mohamed, MP Hon. (Mrs). Millie Odhiambo-Mabona, MP Hon. Mutava Musyimi, MP Hon. George Omari Nyamweya, MP"
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