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    "id": 716204,
    "url": "http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/716204/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Anyang'-Nyong'o",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am being misunderstood. What I said was the following and I do not want to discuss the President. I just said that this kind of amendment creates uncertainty in society and that I was alarmed when somebody approached me on their own and asked if I knew why this thing was being amended. They said that it is being amended because some lawyers have gone to the President and told him that; if this law stays as it is, do you think you can win elections? That is what I was told and I am telling you that one of the things that this amendment is creating in this Republic is the kind of fear and uncertainty that we wanted to avoid by having an electronic system of voting that will keep every Kenya certain that the election will be free and fair. That is all I am saying. My friend on the other side, I am completely with you and I would not like the character of the President to be discussed in that manner. I would like to have a law like this one on which we all have consensus on both sides of the House so that when we go out there, the people of Kenya have confidence in both us and the law. Why should we decide, after we have done such a beautiful law, to sit somewhere and bring an amendment which is railroaded in the “lower House” and you want to railroad here to? This should not happen. I beg to oppose."
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