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    "id": 893024,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/893024/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Saku, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ali Rasso",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Dido Ali Raso",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I am well guided. I rise to support the Motion by the Public Accounts Committee. I thank the Speaker of the National Assembly for his Solomonic wisdom in expunging from the original Report what he felt the Committee tried to overreach, what constitutionally they were not allowed to. After every general election, the general public attempts to dissolve the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). What this House must not do is to try and gerrymander an institution of this country. The IEBC is a commission that is protected under the Constitution. In every Report, we say that the IEBC must be dissolved. The Constitution is very clear on the steps to be taken. This particular Report was to cover the period until 30th June 2017 but it almost covers the 2017 elections. They looked at purchase of the Kenya Integrated Election Management System (KIEMS) kits and how they were used during the 8th August 2017 election and the repeat presidential polls. Reading the Report page by page, for the first time, I was a bit interested with the PAC Report because it covered both the general publics’ interest as well as the interests of this interesting institution that the IEBC has become. We are saying that IEBC is bad and, therefore, it must be dissolved but during the 2017 elections, and even during the elections of 2013, we conducted six elections-in-one. Nobody is faulting IEBC for the other five elections. We are saying that IEBC is bad just because of the presidential election. If you read through this Report and look at its contents, you will come through several sections where they have clearly said that questions have been answered, and that the queries that the Auditor-General raised have been qualified. However, there are cases where they looked at what you call over-insurance. Over-insurance means buying items for much more than you need just in case you need more. While I support this Report generally, the Committee has not given us the statement from the Chief Procurement Officer. I am not sure if by the time we were going for elections in 2017 the IEBC had a chief procurement officer or these massive procurements worth over Kshs22 billion were done without a procurement officer. For those Hon. Members 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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