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    "id": 1133991,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1133991/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nambale, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Sakwa Bunyasi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2511,
        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
        "slug": "john-sakwa-bunyasi"
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    "content": " We must allow the IEBC to be truly independent. The problems that come out of electoral mess do not necessarily originate intrinsically from the IEBC. It is because there are serious players out there who try to manipulate the elections in their own directions leading to the kind of mess we found ourselves in previous elections. The year 2002 was a more difficult period in this country’s quest for political change, but there was no violence because there was no one from outside the electoral body trying to manipulate what the Commission was doing. In all subsequent general elections, the IEBC was manipulated. When we get to a point where the stakes are high and everyone thinks they can control the referee, we will have problems. Lastly, the presence of the Chief Justice on the Elections Preparedness Committee is bad. It does not matter whether the former Chief Justices Mutunga or the former Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) Chairman, the late Kivuitu, sat in that committee. They should be kept out of that committee. Let the court wait for dispute that…"
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