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    "id": 1120937,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a very important Petition. I have read through this Note Verbale and it paints a very worrisome picture. Mr. Speaker, Sir, generally, there has been an outcry in the country about respect to the rule of law in the country. Before we speak about foreign interests in the country, there is a big problem locally. As per the dictates of our Constitution, Cabinet Secretaries in the first place, are supposed to be apolitical. Many of them have since vacated that constitutional edict and are now openly campaigning for different candidates. One day, you get a Cabinet Secretary saying that he or she endorses Sen. Moses Wetangula for President and then tomorrow, they want to come and sit in a Committee that is coordinating General Elections. First of all, that is strange because, constitutionally, it is purely the domain of IEBC. I must thank the Chairman of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), Wafula Chebukati, for insisting on that particular position that there is nothing to coordinate in an election. This is not the first election. I do not know where people get the silly behaviour to imagine that there is anything for the Executive to coordinate in an election. There is nothing. It is purely the work of IEBC. If it is security apparatus, I believe that the Inspector General (IG) of Police knows. It is out of that same attitude that you see now being transported to other foreign countries, where people want to believe that you can chaperon the country into a particular political direction. That cannot be accepted. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are a country founded on the rule of law. We must respect our Constitution even as people engage. I believe that all these foreign funded institutions that are here know to what extend to engage. On many occasions, they will never direct their funding or support towards a particular political party. On many occasions it is to a particular cause or sectoral groups, like people living with disabilities or women, which"
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