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    "id": 717417,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Baiya",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Njoroge Baiya",
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    "content": "The other candidate was Dr. Roselyn Akombe Kwamboka. She was born on 21st November 1976 in Nyamira County. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Global Affairs from Rutgers University, the United States of America (USA). She has a Master of Science in Global Affairs from the same university and a Bachelor‟s degree in Education from the University of Nairobi. She meets all the requirements of the Constitution. She plans to apply for leave of absence from her current employment as undersecretary at the United Nations (UN) in New York to take up the IEBC appointment, if her nomination is approved. Her vision is that she has participated in elections across the world and wants to apply her comparative experience to improve and transform her country‟s management of the electoral process. She will bring to the IEBC political and diplomatic skills, conflict prevention skills, managerial experience, integrity, fairness and she will be a neutral arbiter. Regarding women elections, she told the Committee that we need, as a country, to work on cultural and financial barriers to level the playing field for women. Political parties must develop commitment to give women fair chances in nomination in their stronghold. On political temperatures, she stated that it is everybody‟s responsibility and not only just IEBC to tone down political rhetoric and calm down the temperatures. Paul Kibiwott Kurgat was born on 25th May 1961 in Kakamega County but comes from Uasin Gishu County. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in History, Department of History, Political Science and Public Administration, School of Arts and Social Studies, Moi University. She has a Master‟s degree in international relations from Ukrainian Institute of International Relations, Kyiv State University; diploma in Peace and Security, Uppsala University, Sweden and diploma in Conflict Management Resolution at the same university in Sweden. The nominee said that he wants to help manage and conduct the upcoming election in a credible manner. In terms of experience, he brings in knowledge in security studies, peace and conflict resolution. He has worked and lived in different parts of the country and appreciates the diversity of the people of Kenya. His background in history studies gives him an advantage to help the Commission understand human activities from different cultural perspectives. On his approach to IEBC, he stated that will support adoption of technology and borrow lessons from Russia which has fitted all its 90,000 polling stations with CCTV cameras and operate in 11 different time zones. On how to contain violence and promote transparency, this candidate told the committee that he would advocate tough action to be taken on promoters of violence like political aspirants. Violence is build-up of events from political campaigns to elections and should be checked before escalation. Stiff penalties like baring perpetrators from active politics for a period 10 years should be considered. There is urgency to strictly implement the Election Offences Act. Transparency can be sustained by upholding national values and being fair to each other. He has never given or taken a bribe."
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