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    "id": 716184,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I choose to continue. The point I was making in the morning was simple. When I was using that story of Othello, I meant to use it as an illustration. This law that the Committee Chaired by Sen. Orengo and Sen. Murungi produced is like a maiden. It is fresh, beautiful and not to be contaminated. The people of Kenya are in love with this law, Senators are in love with this law and the people who appeared before Sen. Wako’s Committee the other day - if you listened to them - are in love with this law, particularly the section that says; “in order to avoid another trouble in the next elections, let us use a method that will improve sufficiency, efficiency, transparency and effectiveness”. Even Kriegler in his report after the 2007 elections appealed to us to have a process of election that is electronic and that cannot be manipulated easily by human behaviour. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the people out there are looking at us to preserve this maiden and not to violate it. Let us not be like the Brabantio who feared that the Moor could marry his beautiful daughter. Let us not have fear that the people of Kenya cannot embrace this law and that the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) cannot implement this law. Let us not debate in fear and not fear to debate. This House must rise like a tiger which does not need to proclaim its tigritude; it pounces Let us pounce into the future with this law. This law has not even been tried. The IEBC has not implemented this law. Why do we fear to see it implemented? As I said in the morning, if you look at Section 44 (b) of this law, it states clearly the kind of regulation that IEBC should put in place together with all of us in ensuring this law works. Why are we afraid to jump forward and ensure that we do exactly what the law says?"
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