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    "id": 928099,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Igembe North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Maoka Maore",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Richard Maore Maoka",
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    "content": "The Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs has made an attempt to tell us that we are having a crisis; that in case you wake up tomorrow and one of those commissioners decides to quit, you have a crisis. That is what is only being addressed. That we need a mechanism on which to replace the quorum of at least seven commissioners. You are not invited to overhaul the electoral process or electoral law. We need to praise the Committee and its Chair for having seen that vision and brought this idea to the House. It is upon Members at the Committee stage to bring amendments with a view to bring agencies, organisations and individuals they want on board, but they should not attempt to say that they are throwing away this initiative. We should not fear to legislate, or legislate out of fear. Those are two bad ideas. I have been a participant in the last six elections. As Members have said, there is no electoral body which has presided over two elections. Chesoni did 1992 and Kivuitu came in. If you follow that sequence, you find that every time there is a complaint about a referee, even the ones you are going to appoint for the 2022 general elections will not preside over the next one because people do not feel comfortable about a referee who has not announced them the winner. That is exactly what we are invited to do. Let us try to stem a crisis when we are staring at it. Even if you bring the initiative of the BBI or Punguza Mizigo or the boundaries commission, you cannot have three commissioners to deal with the boundary review issues and three others to run the election when they are not there."
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