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    "id": 892818,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Matungulu, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Stephen Mule",
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Mutinda Mule",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. At the outset, I want to thank PAC for the good job done. I want to agree with the Speaker on the relevant section of this report which has been expunged. I want to say clearly to Kenyans, if they are serious, today is one day where a report to rectify and make sure that in 2022 we do not repeat the same mistake is in the House. It is important for Kenyans to know this report does not target anybody. It targets the malpractices which have happened at the IEBC. I want to agree with the recommendation of the Committee. We are trying to look at where we have gone wrong after all those years, as Kenyans, so that after conducting elections we must have chaos; we must go to the streets to sing that the election body and the commissioners must go. More fundamentally, one aspect which is coming out of this Report is lack of planning. Why am I saying lack of planning? If you go through the entire Report, you will find that most of the procurement for election materials is delayed until the eleventh hour, such that people start threatening Kenyan taxpayers that there will be no election because they do not have enough time to do procurement. As we debate this Report and adopt it, I know for sure this Parliament is committed to deal with this issue in this country once and for all. Once this Report is adopted by the House, it should be taken by the relevant authorities with immediate effect. The authorities should start implementing the recommendations given to them. They should also make sure that they report back to this House. We do not want to get into the elections of 2022 in such a mess; in a mess whereby the CEO of IEBC without any choice or with a choice and probably not knowing or knowing signs contracts worth Kshs4.3 billion without any performance guarantee provided and without following the Constitution and the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act, 2015. 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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