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    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "have been to resign before getting the country where we are and this House to consider such a Petition. I want to speak to them because I know they are listening to me. Commissioners Masit, Cherera of the ‘ Chereramatics’, Nyang’aya and Wanderi, it is time to pack and leave. You need not take this country through another painful process. Kenyans want to move forward from the 9th August 2022 election and the consequent actions of your misbehaviour at the Bomas of Kenya. Hon. Speaker, the actions of these Commissioners would easily have turned this country into a banana republic. I must commend the millions of people who voted for the Azimio candidates - Raila Odinga and his running mate Martha Karua. They resisted and desisted from being incited to go to the streets by these Commissioners and those prodding them. We must thank and commend Kenyans. This is because for the first time in the history of our Republic since the advent of multi-partyism, they saw they can go into election, vote for the candidate of their choice, commend those who win and congratulate those who lose and the country moves on peacefully. We must commend the people of Kenya. Therefore, these Commissioners must equally pay. I want to ask this House to support the recommendations of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs that these Commissioners be subjected to a tribunal. I would advise them not to allow themselves to get to the tribunal. It will be a painful process for this country to take them through a tribunal. We do not want to relive this. Hon. Speaker, you and I were at the Bomas of Kenya. You know the tension that gripped this country out of the actions of Commissioners who were irresponsible and insensitive to millions of Kenyans, who woke up very early to vote for candidates of their choice. I want to repeat, the right thing would be not to get to a position where the Committee is recommending to His Excellency the President to appoint a tribunal. To deal with this matter in accordance with Article 251(5) of our Constitution, I would encourage them to give our country peace. They wanted to destroy Kenyans who chose to live peacefully after voting and went home to wait patiently for the results. For Commissioners who were appointed to office not so long ago, to have the temerity to do what they did, was a very sad day for our country. Hon. Speaker, you remember in the 12th Parliament when the process of appointing Commissioners came to this Floor, we indicated that we had not followed due process. There is an existing court order that had only allowed Commissioner Irene Masit to sit in office until they conducted the elections because she was not in office rightfully. There is a court judgement on that. This is the same Commissioner who did not even submit herself to due process, and she knows she ought not to be in the office in the first place."
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