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    "speaker_name": "Eldas, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Adan Keynan",
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        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "commissions and the two independent offices one of which is the office of the Auditor-General whose main function is to audit accounts of State institutions. Equally, PAC is one of the oldest and the most respected committees in the Commonwealth Parliamentary traditions. Therefore, whatever we do as a country, we must be careful and always respect the traditions of our Parliament, so that it gives value to the taxpayers’ money. I will not go back to what was discussed. I also appreciate the fact the office of the Auditor-General has done a good job. I am speaking as a former commissioner in the audit commission. I know the good work. I appreciate professionalism and the zeal in which Hon. Ouko has conducted his work. Secondly, at the end of every election, there are issues. I know there are different categories of individuals on societies and parties who are not generally satisfied with the results of elections. We must also be very careful. We sorted out Kivuitu. We threw his team out of office. We did it with the Issack Hassan led team. We are doing it with Chebukati and team. We need to ask ourselves: Is the problem the Kenyans society or the IEBC? If there is need for electoral reforms, then we do not necessarily at the end of every election need to bash individuals who do not have an opportunity to defend themselves. If, as Parliament, we are desirous of engaging in serious electoral reforms, then we know that this House has the mandate to undertake that. Without going back to what the Speaker has made a decision on, we also need to understand the role of the Secretariat and that of the Commission. Politicisation,regionalisation, ethnicisation and trivialisation of audit reports will only negate the very essence of having PAC. That is why some of us were a bit concerned when we saw what was captured earlier on in the Report. It was completely out of the mandate of the PAC, but that has been sorted out. This is not a banana republic. We have different categories or sources of law. The first one is the Constitution, the second are the statutes, the third is subsidiary legislation and the fourth one is traditions and precedents. We also have presidential pronouncements. Unfortunately, these days, roadside presidential declarations do not form part of our laws. We also have our own Standing Orders. We must be guided by this. Having said this, it is also clear that we need serious and well-thought out electoral reforms, so that we end this issue of having challenges at the end of every election and we start hammering innocent individuals. We need to seek and reflect right now as the leadership of the Republic of Kenya and agree that there are challenges. There are issues that caused a bit of discomfort and dissatisfaction with different categories of the Kenyan society. Because we have time, we need to sort these issues. Were they legislative, driven by individual weaknesses, or institutional?"
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