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    "content": "and voted. At the end of the day, they said that elections in Kenya were free and fair despite seeing the activities that led into the day of and after the election. This would be a good indicator. This Conference should not be like an academic exercise where we do not correct each other as interested parties to the conferences. Madam Temporary Speaker, I also noted the other item of the agenda in that Conference which was on election of the Secretary General to the Conference. Kenya was eligible to nominate a candidate. However, it did not comply with the criteria that is set for one to qualify to nominate a secretary general. They said that the Kenyan candidate was dropped because the letter submitting the credentials of the candidate was not signed by the Speaker. Surely, how do we fail to have a chance to have a secretary general because the Speaker of the Senate or the National Assembly, at that time failed to sign a letter that submits the candidate’s name? It must have been some lousy person who did a letter without alerting the Speakers. A Speaker of the nature of credentials held by the Speaker in this House cannot forward a name with an unsigned letter. We need to follow up on how we approach that. How serious are we in these conferences? It also says that we are supposed to submit names of three candidates but we submitted one. The regulations say that we submit three from which the Conference will choose one. Kenya failed because we submitted only one. The unsigned letter actually submitted credentials of only one person and we lost. How did we lose? Just sheer negligence on the part of whoever was submitting this name. I believe it cannot have been the Speaker of either of the Houses who submitted this name. Madam Temporary Speaker, that is the much that I observed from the Report. I thank the representatives for giving a Report that actually reflected what was said about our country in that Conference."
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