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    "id": 928112,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Karachuonyo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Adipo Okuome",
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        "id": 13362,
        "legal_name": "Andrew Adipo Okuome",
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    "content": "remain with no homes to go to and some sleep in the streets, just because of the election. Why should we be a country that begins to count our deaths even before the election because we know for sure that the election will leave us with deaths? Because of that, I would say that we look at the election system, the panel they have proposed here, the actual members of the commission and even the system we should use. For example, could we use a biometric system in the elections? We have tried this manual system. We know what happened. It was a failure. We have tried a mixture of manual and electronic systems. We know what happened. So, we need to go a little further. We need consultations with countries that have been successful in conducting elections. The Committee can visit those countries and borrow ideas from them. This is a serious issue. So, when I talk of opposing it, it is not really opposing per se. This Bill can be withdrawn for the purpose of making it look into all our problems in elections. One thing the Committee has proposed, and which is good and I support it, is leaving the political parties out of the selection panel. This is a good effort in trying to give the IEBC Commission its independence as the Constitution provides. I do not oppose this Bill in total, but I support part of it. I am proposing that it be withdrawn, so that the Committee can widen its net to catch all the problems that we have in the electoral cycle, from the beginning up to the end. After working on the Bill, we can face the elections feeling happy and hopeful as a country. With that, we will do well. If you can recall in the year 2003, for the first time in the history of our country, Kenya was reported to be the most optimistic country. That it looked into its future with happiness and believed everything would be well. That was because the elections in that year were good and there were no problems. I wish we can have that kind of situation in Kenya again, so that we can be a country that will be proud of itself. I wish to ask for the withdrawal of this Bill to make it better and pass it when it is comprehensive than the way it is. Thank you."
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