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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dawood",
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        "legal_name": "Abdul Rahim Dawood",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. First, let me congratulate the seven nominees of IEBC. I want to state I support all of them, even the Chair. I sat as a friend of the Committee when Mr Chebukati was being interviewed and I did not see any adverse comment by anybody. I do not know what Hon. Memusi is talking about. I never saw any memorandum. I believe if there was a memorandum, Hon. Memusi would have been in that Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs meeting. I think he should hold his horses. I am even surprised he, being a senior member and the newest MP from ODM, was not supporting an ODM member who just resigned the other day. When we were interviewing the Chairperson, he mentioned that he just resigned from ODM one month before applying for the position. I asked him what his relationship was with Hon. Raila, knowing he was in ODM for the last 10 years. I was getting scared. Then I thought it is good he is the Chairperson, so this time we will not be talking about stolen elections. Every other time we talk about stolen elections. This time at least we will not talk about stolen elections because he is part of the Opposition. That notwithstanding, I think all the nominees are very well qualified. When many lawyers in this House and the Law Society of Kenya say we should have lawyers in the IEBC, there is no reason we should have lawyers. Let us have outsiders manage our elections so that we can have free and transparent elections. I would want us to get over the fact that every election cycle we have to change the commissioners. We have to make do with what we have. We have to trust them. If we cast aspersions, even before the commissioners are sworn in, we are not doing the country a favour. The country needs a stable commission so that they can carry out stable elections. I would want to focus on one nominee from Meru County, by the name of Consolata Nkatha Bucha Maina. Consolata comes from my constituency. I want to say all the MPs from Meru support her. But that does not mean she will favour us or anything. I just want to say that she--- There are many things which are written in the Press regarding her, but not everything which is written is true. I want to say that we will support this Commission up to the full. While we are doing registration of voters, we apparently have a problem with registration of voters, especially people who were born in 1995 and 1996. The BVRs do not recognise their The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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