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    "id": 928103,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mogotio, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Daniel Tuitoek",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kamuren Tuitoek",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I stand to oppose the Amendment Bill. First of all, elections in Kenya have brought a lot of violence and great suspicion on IEBC. As my colleague has just said, we have lots of suspicion on the referees who conduct general elections every five years. We have never got it right. Even the IEBC commissioners resigned halfway through the last elections. It was a sad affair. Credible elections in Kenya is key to getting the right leaders to lead this nation. Having the right men and women in the selection panel is very important. The panel should be agreed upon by a wide consensus of society. I also believe that every year we get new members of the panel that also may be a problem. We may need to think about staggering the membership of the panel, so that, at least, we have half the team serving at a given time. As we limit, let us say they serve for five years, but they should serve slightly beyond that, so that they can have institutional memory of the previous actions of the panel. There was the argument that maybe not all institutions or interested parties may be included through this particular amendment. It may also be necessary to see whether political parties can also be considered to have at least one or two members, especially the key political parties with parliamentary representation. Those could be allowed to nominate a member to the panel. We do not need to have the 11 commissioners as such. I remember the 1997 Inter-Parties Parliamentary Group panel had around 29 persons. There was a lot of suspicion at that time due to the fact that every interested party felt that they needed to be represented in those panels. I think we saw a bit of a harmony in the election of 2002. There was a bit of consensus and the election of 2002 went on very smoothly. So, I think a broad-based representation in the panel is very important. Therefore, the amendments should be instituted after wide consultations. I, therefore, support the withdrawal of this Bill to allow for more exhaustive consultations. I beg to oppose."
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