{"count":1608389,"next":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=159592","previous":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=159590","results":[{"id":1614102,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1614102/?format=json","text_counter":206,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mombasa County, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Zamzam Mohammed","speaker":null,"content":" Asante sana, Mhe. Spika. Ningependa kupongeza Kamati iliyowapiga msasa hawa makamishna. Wakenya walikuwa wanauliza tunaelekea wapi. Baada ya muda mrefu, wametupa jawabu kuwa ni hawa ambao wameteuliwa. Nawawapongeza makamishna wote ambao wameteuliwa, wakiongozwa na mwenyekiti wao. Wakenya tumefurahi kwa sababu tumeona kwamba wamechanganya. Leo tumepata Mwenyekiti ambaye ametoka jamii ya wachache, na hili linaonyesha kuwa Wakenya wamekubali kwamba uongozi unatoka mahali popote. Ninasimama kwa sababu ya mwanangu, ama niseme mtoto wa Pwani, Fahima, ambaye ametoka katika jamii ndogo sana pale Shela. Nilifuatilia wakati walikuwa wanapigwa msasa, na nilikuwa naangalia jinsi alivyohojiwa na lile Jopo. Niliona yule mtoto alikuwa na ujasiri mkubwa sana. Ameshika bendera ya vijana wetu na kuonyesha kuwa vijana wana nguvu na ari ya kuchukua nafasi kubwa sana katika taifa. Ningependa kuwaombea Mungu. Najua kwamba kazi hii ina mitihani mingi sana, lakini nawaombea Mungu, Insha Allah, wakati wa kuanza kazi zao walindwe na Mwenyezi Mungu. Wasimame na haki na usawa. Hatutaki kuona maafa katika taifa. Tunawategemea kutoa haki kwa wananchi. Kama Mama County wa Mombasa, ningependa kumwambia Fahima kwamba namuombea Mungu sana. Ametuheshimisha wanawake. Namuombea Mungu sana. Amefanya wanawake na vijana waheshimike. Alizungumza kwa ujasiri na kuonyesha kiwango chake cha elimu. Nimependezwa sana. Namuomba Mwenyezi Mungu ambariki pamoja na wenzake na Kenya izidi kusonga mbele. Tuko tayari kwa uchaguzi."},{"id":1614103,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1614103/?format=json","text_counter":207,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Leader of the Majority Party."},{"id":1614104,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1614104/?format=json","text_counter":208,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kikuyu, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support the Special Motion on the approval of the nominees to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission. As much as the Selection Panel and the Committee did a very good job in interviewing and vetting these nominees, we have not had an IEBC for almost three years. We are three years late in establishing a commission. That is why I agreed with you, Hon. Speaker, when The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."},{"id":1614105,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1614105/?format=json","text_counter":209,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kikuyu, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah","speaker":null,"content":"you said that there is nobody who can injunct us from either vetting or approving these nominees under the Constitution. I also ask those in the Judiciary to be considerate of the circumstances we are in as a nation."},{"id":1614106,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1614106/?format=json","text_counter":210,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kikuyu, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah","speaker":null,"content":"Moving on to the nominees, it is saddening that because of politics, a number of us out there had started demonising some of these nominees largely on account of where they come from."},{"id":1614107,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1614107/?format=json","text_counter":211,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Leader of the Majority Party, although you are entitled to contribute for 15 minutes, I want you to be considerate and speak for fewer minutes."},{"id":1614108,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1614108/?format=json","text_counter":212,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kikuyu, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah","speaker":null,"content":" I will endeavour to do that, Hon. Speaker. Now that I want to be considerate, it was very inconsiderate to hear somebody who has held a high national office assert that the nominee for Chairperson of the IEBC, Mr Erastus Edung Ethekon, does not warrant that position on account of where he comes from. It was sad to hear somebody say that because Erastus comes from a community that he perceives not to have adequate shares in the country in his own analysis, Erastus does not deserve to chair this Commission. Reading through his curriculum vitae (CV), he has a Master’s Degree in Law from the University of Derby in the United Kingdom (UK), and a Bachelor’s Degree in Law from the University of Nairobi. He qualifies to be a judge of the High Court or even the Supreme Court. That is all that is required in law. The law does not require a person to come from an ethnic community that pleases those who think that people should be given jobs on the basis of their ethnicity."},{"id":1614109,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1614109/?format=json","text_counter":213,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kikuyu, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah","speaker":null,"content":"Regardless of whether Mr Erastus Ethekon comes from Nyeri or Turkana, he is a Kenyan. It was unfortunate to hear the impeached and disgraced former Deputy President assert that Mr Ethekon does not warrant to be nominated to this position on account of the community he comes from. I heard Martha Karua say that Ethekon comes from some bush somewhere. Turkana is not a bush. It is part and parcel of our republic. We must respect people, not on the basis of where they come from, but on the basis of their intellectual abilities. I am sure this lawyer is better than Martha Karua by far. I am certain. Turkana County has produced a very well-schooled individual. I speak about Ethekon because I heard him being attacked by disgruntled politicians, not on account of his qualifications, abilities or capacity to lead this Commission, but largely on the basis of where he comes from. It is rather sad that people who purport to have held national offices can demonise a person on the basis of the community they come from."},{"id":1614110,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1614110/?format=json","text_counter":214,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kikuyu, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah","speaker":null,"content":"Looking at Erastus’ CV, as well as the CVs of all the other nominees, they all qualify to serve the Republic of Kenya as commissioners of the IEBC. We are rather late in establishing this Commission. Lastly, I would like to tell those out there who are looking at these nominees on the basis of their ethnicities and the villages they come from that they will never win an election on the basis of who presides over the election. You win elections based on the agenda you take to the people. If you take an agenda of ethnicity…"},{"id":1614111,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1614111/?format=json","text_counter":215,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Turkana Central, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Joseph Emathe","speaker":null,"content":" On a point of order, Hon. Speaker."}]}