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    "id": 892683,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/892683/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "I remember we came up with the laws in this House regarding the electoral processes the 2007 General Election and Constitution 2010. After the 2007 electoral process, which resulted into very unfortunate circumstances - we are all aware of - Kenyans with the help of our friends, decided to look at the entire electoral process. We even invited an expert, Justice Kriegler, who came to this country and made clear recommendations. I sat in the Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee which was tasked with the responsibility of reviewing all the laws that actualised the Constitution. That was when the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs had a problem. We did not have that Committee for almost two years. Therefore, all the legislations were scrutinised by the Committee where I sat. One of the things that we did when we were coming up with these electoral laws was to try to separate the functions of the Secretariat from that of the Commission in line with the recommendations of Justice Kriegler. We gave the mandate of running the day to day affairs of the Commission to the Secretariat. We went ahead and even prescribed that the matters of procurement are supposed to be exclusively dealt with by the Secretariat."
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