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    "id": 928056,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kwanza, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ferdinand Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "and brainstorm the issue of elections and the IEBC. As it is, the stability of this country and the integrity of the forthcoming elections will depend on what we say here. Therefore, I believe and pray that the rest of the Members will go by what we suggest. Let us even have a kamukunji and go through this. Let us take our time, spend two or three days, look at it and exchange views. If we think we should have the NCCK and the LSK coming in, let us look at it exhaustively and agree. When we leave these things pending and God knows tomorrow we have elections, what will happen? People kill each other in this country because we did not do a good job. At the end of it all, we should have a permanent selection committee that deals with any vacancy that arises out of death or anything else. Four commissioners resigned. I do not know where they went. They want to come back through the back door. We have refused because they resigned for a reason. Some of them had very legitimate reasons. We should have a permanent selection committee to fill the gap. We need to have a kamukunji and invite the Senators. We need to talk and find the best way forward. Will we have political parties forwarding the names? We can do that. Can religious leaders do that? The bodies are there. We have Catholics and Protestants. They can do so. If it is the best way of doing it, let us do that. Can the LSK assist us? We can do that. Let us exhaust that option before we start debating whether we should pass this Amendment Bill or not. With those few remarks, I am opposed to this Amendment Bill."
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