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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Farah",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abdulaziz Ali Farah",
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    "content": "and they have a mix of expertise and experiences. The members proposed for appointment have expertise in the fields of political science, history, PR, law, science, education, language, human resource, peace and security and so on. That means that this is a team that is capable of refereeing and managing our elections in this country. However, there are questions that linger in the minds of Kenyans that this new team needs to tackle. One, it is an open secret that the IEBC secretariat is riddled with corruption and this team needs to clean up that team. The team that will be helping them do their work must be a team that is clean of corruption. I will give an example in my constituency. There is boundary change in one ward in my constituency that the Court of Appeal ruled on in 2014. It was put in the Kenya Gazette by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). Implementing that law has been a very difficult road to follow just because there were some characters who were bribing the secretariat right, left and centre to delay that implementation. As I speak here today, the same law has problems and it has not been fully implemented. Therefore, we need to tell the new team to tackle corruption. I will give an example of the voting day in 2013. A polling station in my opponent‟s area was open for voting until 6.00 a.m. the following morning, while most of all the other polling stations were closed at 6.00 p.m. the previous day. We had to ambush that place and close it by force."
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