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    "content": "prints are not captured, the alternative should be the other biometrics stored in the same equipment. So, the equipment that registered you must identify you when you go to vote. We like to be very forgetful. I watched some movie where a baboon lifts a stone and sees a puff udder under it. It drops the stone and then falls down as if it is dead; then it stands again and within 30 seconds, it has forgotten what it had done; it lifts the same stone again and sees the same puff udder. We are pretending as if we were not born in this country, as if we did not grow up here and as if we do not live here. There is a friend of mine called Mr. Henry Kosgey. I checked the HANSARD. When former President Moi brought a Bill here to introduce queue voting, my dear friend, Mr. Henry Kosgey who I meet and talk regularly with, spoke so extravagantly that it was not even necessary for him to speak that way. He said, “This is a good system. It is stress free. Anybody can vote. We do not need to spend money.” in the next elections he got the longest queues in queue voting system in Tinderet while K.K. Sego got the shortest queues in Tinderet. The candidate with the shortest queues was declared the winner while the one with the longest queues was declared the loser. Mr. Henry Kosgey was kept out until the law was changed for him to come back. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when Justice Aaron Ringera was teaching us law at the University of Nairobi, he used to tell us that if you want to test a good law, imagine that law in the hands of your worst enemy. If you feel safe with it, then it is a good law. We are behaving as if there is no tomorrow. Clause 44(a) of the Bill that has come from the National Assembly is trying to change what was negotiated and agreed upon. In case we forget, the negotiations that brought the Kiraitu-Orengo process cost Kenyans lives and property. People demonstrated. There were interlocutors from churches, diplomats and the private sector until we saw sense. I listened very carefully to the Committee hearings of this Committee. Respected organizations; the LSK, the KNHRC and even the most unexpected friend of mine called Mr. Kiprono Kittony spoke like I have never heard him before. They were all sounding caution and alarm bells to the country. Why? I invite Members to read the Kriegler Report. Kriegler said that in 2007, after the conflict of that election, his commission found 1.2 million “dead” voters on our voters’ roll. Now they could be 2 million or more. What safeguards can we have other than saying, when you come to vote, if it is my brother from Laikipia from whom I have great respect, the machines that registered you will identify you then you vote. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the haste with which we have seen this process and the determination that I have seen even distinguished reasonable Members across the Floor; lawyers have voted without remembering who they are. In this country, quick fixes have always landed us in regrettable positions. I sat here and listened to young Sang from Nandi; a young man that has a lot of promise and I could not help wondering which direction he is headed. I urge you to live knowing there is tomorrow. As Sen. Orengo told you, politics has no permanent friends or enemies. Those that you are dancing excitedly for will be the pythons that will coil around you tomorrow. You will come running."
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