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    "id": 892790,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/892790/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) James Nyikal",
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        "legal_name": "James Nyikal",
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    "content": "I know Chapter 15 of the Constitution provides that commissions are independent and full time. We must look at what full time commissions do. Do they do executive work? If they do, then, there will be conflict between the executive and commission. As indicated in Section 11(a) of the IEBC Act, that is something that we cannot take for granted. If one part of the Act gives the CEO executive powers and the Constitution gives the commissioners executive powers, then we have a conflict. I agree with the recommendation of the Committee that we need look at the legal framework of the IEBC. We may be taking it for granted, but it is a cause of a big problem in our electoral system. The Committee talks of conflict of interest. We had a long debate today on the issue of conflict of interest. This is something Kenyans must look at very seriously. We must even, as individuals, know when there is conflict of interest. If it appears, as it is in the Report, that the commissioners and the officers made decisions on procurement in the interest of people they either knew or related to them, nothing can be worse than that particularly when it is IEBC and what it does for the people of this country. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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