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    "content": "Secondly, on public participation, the statement made by the CEO of the IEBC, Mr. Ezra Chiloba, and the Catholic Church on this matter presupposes that they were not spoken to at the time that this matter was presented before the National Assembly. Thirdly, on technology, I listened to the debate and in particular the National Assembly. I am persuaded as the only Member who sits in the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights and the Committee on Information and Technology; that even the leadership of this country is technologically challenged. The words “continuity plan” and other things that have been in discussion in this Senate--- There is something which has been pending in this Senate which needs to come back.In this report that was tabled in this Senate, a Committee called “the Technical Advisory Committee” by the IEBC was formed before the regulations were passed. That committee is technical and has already presented the regulations to the Senate and we have interrogated them. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I sat as Chairperson and the wisdom of having the Communications Authority of Kenya coming into the meeting is because all the things that everybody is talking about are already in the regulations; besides power outages, terrorism has been included.We have even proposed that the server at IEBC which is housed in a floor in AnniversaryTowers be moved so many kilometers out of the city. All these things will come out clearly out of the wisdom of having public participation so that they can ventilate those issues. After listening to some of the debates, it reminded me of a statement by Mahatma Gandhi about greatness. He said: “To achieve greatness, you have to have simple living and high thinking.” In this case, we are having high living and simple thinking. We would like to remove that and this is the place where we can remove those cobwebs that are existing even in leadership and particularly the leaders who I heard moving this Bill from the Jubilee Coalition. Thank you."
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