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    "id": 721294,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I stand to support this list. At the outset, I want to make it very clear based on the law. The law that this House passed says the Selection Panel will submit two names to the appointing authority - this is the President - to choose one person. It does not say 77 marks or 65 marks. It does not say a woman or a man. It does not say the region. People must be very honest. None of these people come from my constituency or county. When you stand in this House and you either support or oppose based on your ethnic orientation, it is a very sad day for Kenya. You oppose because your person has not been picked. You support vehemently because your person has been picked. Secondly, the law says that the President will receive nine names which he will select six. It does not say which ones. That is the discretion given to His Excellency the President by the law. If you did not have the opportunity to go and talk to the President after you found your person was on the list and lobbied, then you cannot come and create ethnic animosity. Each one of us sitting here has Kenyans who are serving in different positions from different regions and from different ethnic backgrounds. Let us not divide Kenyans. If it is the Maa Community, this House in the last Special Sitting approved commissioners for the Commission on Revenue Allocation and there was a member from the Maa Community, more specifically from Narok. Let us be very honest. Number two, if you look at the history of this Commission, every time they do not rule in your favour, you want to disband them; you want to demonstrate; you want to make Kenyans die and you want to destroy property. I pray that this Commission will live to its term to conduct the 2022 general elections. My advice to Chebukati and his team is, you should not be blackmailed, intimidated or coerced by any political entity or individual. It is the people of Kenya who go to the polling stations in large numbers to vote. The Commission and its secretariat‟s function is to manage the electoral process. I do not think we are approving Chebukati for a particular candidate in the 2017 General Election. I looked at his CV and saw that he is a qualified Kenyan with 31 years‟ experience. The list represents the face of Kenya. For the first time, the list has 50 per cent of both genders. If you look at the six commissioners, apart from the Chair, it is three men and three women. They are academicians. I had the opportunity to have known Prof. Kurgat and I looked at his CV. I was shocked by my very good friend, Mr. Amollo Otiende, who at one time was saying that IEBC Commissioners must be outsourced. That is wrong, that is not the right route. We must have confidence in our people. Next time you will tell us to look for wives from abroad. There is something wrong. There are too many beautiful women in town. There are some particular parts of our country where, if they marry a Mzungu that is prestige. Where I come from, when I marry a rural girl in the village, it is prestige for me. When you walk with a"
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