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    "id": 1204857,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1204857/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kanduyi, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon John Makali",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I must say that we need to allay the impression out there that the Commissioners were never given an opportunity to give their evidence. The Committee which I sat in, gave the Commissioners a chance to come and defend themselves before it. They never appeared. They instead sent very renown lawyers to appear before that particular Committee. In addition, they never filed responses in respect of the petitions that had been filed against them by the four parties. Technically the petitions stood unrebated. When the proceedings were going on, the petitioners clearly demonstrated respective areas where the Constitution was breached by the four Commissioners. All Kenyans will remember the screens that we watched on 15th August. These people were almost carrying out a coup on the will of the Kenyan people. We looked at the petitions as they were, assaults were made on the Committee regarding its jurisdiction. We withstood a lot of abuse. The Committee was even called a kangaroo court . Those petitions that were presented met the threshold to enable this National Assembly to send them to the President for the appointment of a tribunal. We cannot wait until the last minute. The mistake we have been making is reconstituting the Commission too close to the elections. This is the rightful time to fix IEBC issues so that we can have credible and fair elections in future. Hon. Speaker, I support."
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