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    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1204802/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I beg Members’ indulgence on this matter because this follows a petition by members of the public. Even as I rise to support, in a very special manner, allow me to thank the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs for the good work that they put in. Hon. Speaker, I also want to thank you because on 15th November 2022, you conveyed the four petitions for the removal of the four IEBC Commissioners by the Republican Liberty Party, Rev. Dennis Ndwiga Nthumbi, Geoffrey Lang’at and Owuor Steve Gerry. I thank you because you guided the Committee on how it would conduct its hearings. Now that we all followed the proceedings of the Committee, they adhered to your guidelines and the hearings were quite orderly. Many Kenyans have asked why these hearings were televised. Some argue that all that the Committee needed to do was to look at the petitions quietly. However, you guided that the Commissioners who were being petitioned against be afforded the right to appear in person or through legal representation and the right to even cross-examine the petitioners under oath, over all the matters they had raised in their petitions."
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