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    "id": 928120,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bumula, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mwambu Mabongah",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Wekesa Mwambu Mabonga",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to give my views on this amendment Bill. First and foremost, I wish to oppose this amendment. Elections are very critical in this country. As you have heard from other Members, every five years we have a lot of destruction of property and even loss of lives. One thing we ought to do as a House, before we even get into the selection panel of the commissioners of that important body is to understand that everything may revolve around selection because selection is the foundation. If we get the selection wrong, we are going to have a very bad election and wrong results. The results are death and destruction. You have heard from one Member of JLAC saying that there is a crisis. Another one admits that there is no crisis. As far as I am concerned, there is no crisis at the moment. I would urge the Committee to withdraw this Bill and have a proper consensus with all the stakeholders. You have heard some people saying that they are waiting for the report from the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) so that their views are co-opted. You have heard from the Member who has just spoken. That means that with all these dissenting voices from Members and other professional bodies, if they come together, we are likely to solve the problem that we are having. I am not concerned about the numbers the way they are suggesting. It is about the quality of men and women who will sit on that panel and secure the image of this country. After every five years, Kenya is painted badly outside there and it is our sole responsibility. Of course, it is a collective The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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