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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "lead that Committee. However, slightly close to two years that this Committee has been in existence, Sen. Cherargei has led it with great distinction and honor. This Committee has achieved tremendous things, including being listed before this House this afternoon. I congratulate him for that. That is testament that given a chance, the youth are the answer to the problems in this country. Secondly, there are two things that this Committee is handling that are of great national importance. The Chairperson spoke to it. I know that the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Amendment Act is before this Committee. It will be of great importance that they quickly bring forth the issues that are placed before them. They should either agree or disagree with the proposals made by the National Assembly. As a House, we should stamp our authority by raising our voice on what we think needs to be done at the IEBC. We need to do this because as a country, we have a knack for never learning from our mistakes. The Kriegler Commission of 2009, recommended that, if we do not want to have trouble in our electoral process, we should ensure that two years before an election we should have the IEBC properly constituted. The big political players are not speaking to this yet we know that the IEBC as constituted at the moment suffers great challenges in terms of raising quorum and the commissioners. What will happen if at a very critical time one of the three available commissioners is indisposed for one reason or the other? The Commission will not be able to sit and transact business. We do not know for how long this will be done. It would be proper if this exercise is concluded before the first quarter of next year, so that the Commission has more than two years to prepare the country for elections. On many occasions, we hear issues about why we ask questions, yet we know that in the last three elections, the referee, for one reason or the other, either by omission or commission, has been central to the dispute."
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