{"id":928006,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/928006/?format=json","text_counter":163,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Tharaka, JP","speaker_title":"Hon. George Gitonga","speaker":{"id":13491,"legal_name":"George Gitonga Murugara","slug":"george-gitonga-murugara"},"content":" Thank you. I stand guided, Hon. Speaker. I was trying to justify that, in fact, the tirade we got from the Leader of the Majority Party may not have been factually correct. I stand guided. The reason the LSK has been included is as I have said, that we have to give advice both to the Government and the people of Kenya as far as the law is concerned. As I support the Bill, which I think we should pass, it is important that we have a properly constituted IEBC for purposes of moving forward and discharging the very important functions which we have enumerated under Article 88 of the Constitution. There is talk of a referendum coming up and yet we do not have any referendum Act in this country. There is no such statute. If we are to have a referendum, which law would we invoke? This is the work the IEBC is supposed to get into including having a statute that we can use for a referendum that is publicly initiated, or parliamentary initiated, or initiated through a process like the one of"}