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    "id": 927970,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/927970/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Baringo North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. William Cheptumo",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 50,
        "legal_name": "William Cheptumo Kipkiror",
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    "content": "Article 88 of the Constitution and the provisions of the IEBC Act mandate the Commission to deal with very weighty issues like boundaries delimitation in the country, an issue that will be coming up very soon. The Commission oversees elections. Recently, we had a number of by-elections undertaken by the Commission. Currently, there is a discussion in the country about a referendum and, recently the same Commission okayed the Punguza Mizigo Initiative. The Commission undertakes serious issues that require us to consider whether the existence of three commissioners as opposed to seven is tenable under the circumstances. There is, therefore, urgent need to fill the vacancies of the four commissioners who have since left the Commission. But there is a legal challenge. There is no legal framework currently through which an initiative and a process can be initiated to fill the vacancies. The law requires that when there is a vacancy arising in the Commission, the President is supposed to declare the vacancies and thereafter a legal process of appointing commissioners is undertaken. That is the challenge I want to address. The amendment Bill before us seeks to deal with the situation where we do not have a legal framework that can enable and facilitate the appointment of new commissioners to fill the 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."
}