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    "id": 892810,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/892810/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Wajir East, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Rashid Kassim",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13504,
        "legal_name": "Rashid Kassim Amin",
        "slug": "rashid-kassim-amin-2"
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    "content": " Thank you. The ruling in terms of expunging the commissioners and the wisdom of the Speaker as far as the ruling is concerned is, indeed, supported. I support the expunging of the names of the commissioners in this regard. Further to that, the PAC Report should rather not have been used to incriminate and remove the commissioners from office. I am thankful for that ruling as far as this is concerned. Further to that, the companies which were single sourced as far as the tendering process was concerned were un-procedurally picked. So, the incriminating and the relevant action should be meted out to the officers who were responsible for the flouting of regulations. As an advice, and as a former CEO for that matter, I concur with the Report. Officers - including Chiloba, who was the head of the secretariat and the financial controller - should be held responsible and not the commissioners as recommended in the Report. Further to that, there are certain companies whose services were tendered for like the Spanish company, which was used single-handedly and it provided mediocre services as far as the electoral process is concerned. The electoral process in terms of remission of elections results and the ICT component was wanting. We realised that there were a number of rules for capturing the number of voters in the country. The services of those companies were wanting and they were not able to provide the services tendered for. As a result of that, we recommend blacklisting of companies that initially provided the services with regard to equipment, kits, KIEMS and the necessary ICT information that was required to conduct free and fair elections. This made the 2017 elections flawed and highly contested in the Republic of Kenya. I recommend that the recommendations of PAC should be upheld as regards taking action against the companies that provided lukewarm services and the officers who were responsible for the flawed and un-procedural tendering process. I support the exoneration of commissioners as stipulated."
}