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    "id": 928123,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/928123/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyeri Town, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ngunjiri Wambugu",
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        "legal_name": "Martin Deric Ngunjiri Wambugu",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Bill. This House is for making laws. This House is for legislating. It is where we solve national issues, national problems and national crisis. I want to believe that the people who have been elected in this House have been elected to pre-empt crisis. Right now, IEBC has three commissioners. God forbid if something happens to anyone of them. Then we would admit that we have a crisis. When I hear my colleagues say that we do not have crisis, it is true we do not. But I ask myself: Are we going to wait until we have a crisis to actually do something about IEBC? This Bill has been brought. We all do not have to agree with it. But the advantage we have in this House is that we can accept it, reject it or amend it. I want to suggest that those who believe that there are things that are not in this Bill and should be in this Bill should now start thinking about the amendments we should be discussing. Saying that we need to throw this Bill out and start all over again at a time when we are very alive to what happened just two years ago, when we had issues about the chairperson and how you transit from one chairperson to another; when we have seen conflict between the chairperson and the secretariat; this Bill gives suggestions on how to solve the very real experiences that we saw and that could have led this country into conflict. It is true that IEBC is the body that determines how our elections are run, the legitimacy of those elections and the people who are elected. We are in this House because of that body. It is our responsibility. We have to make sure that we are introducing a process. We must run away from the issue of thinking about people who are in certain positions and focus on fixing the processes. When I look and read through this Bill, what I am seeing are suggestions of processes that get us people. We are depending on the quality of the people. But if we do not have a process that actually defines how we get that quality of people, then we have a problem. I see a situation where we are being told when we start the process of selecting new people; how we transition from a chairperson, in case he or she is unavailable, to an acting chairperson during elections and how we ensure there is no conflict between the Commission and the secretariat. 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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