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    "id": 721268,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogolla",
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": "The other thing which I want to bring out is that the IEBC is an arbiter and a referee. We really need to have the IEBC at a level where it does not take us to the direction where sometimes it looks at its problems through legislation. Again, this is putting Parliament in some precarious situation. Every little problem, whether administrative or managerial, cannot be looked at legislatively. They usually ran to Parliament instead of engaging other players. We have many players in this electoral process. There are some administrative and managerial issues which, in my view, if the IEBC meets and agrees with stakeholders, it would sort them out without taking the country through the kind of heat it has been taken through certain times. This is because the IEBC tries to bring out legislations to respond to administrative matters. When they are stuck at one moment they say there is no law which can help them to do those kinds of things. I think there is a big problem when the arbiter does not look in terms of who are the main players and engages them constantly so as to sort out some of these administrative matters. I think this is very critical. If we do not look at that constantly, it will always recur around elections and I think it is not good for the country. I want to support that the House adopts the Report so that we allow the Commission to move on. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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