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    "id": 176531,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. Karua",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Martha Wangari Karua",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move:- THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Independent Review Commission on the General Elections held on 27th December, 2007, laid on the Table of the House on Wednesday 1st October, 2008. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this Report is commonly referred to by Kenyans as the Kriegler Commission Report. We sought this Report, as Kenyans, so that we may find out the strengths and more so, the weaknesses of our election systems and how to comprehensively address them. This Report provided recommendations on how to correct our electoral systems. I would like Kenyans to understand that the mandate we gave this Commission did not extend to finding out who won the elections. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, right from the outset, we were very clear in our minds that the issues we wanted delved into is what happened in terms of the mistakes that may have been committed and how to address them. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would say this Report and the recommendations thereof are an indictment of all of us, as a nation. This is from the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) to the political class to political parties to the citizens themselves to the media to the civil societies and the observers. This includes our foreign friends. Our conduct, collectively, is what led to the violence that engulfed this country immediately after the General Elections of last year. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the object of calling for the inquiry and report was not so that we dwell on the mistakes that we have collectively committed. It is so that we move forward and correct those errors. We, as a nation, are now ready and I am proud that, today, a Constitutional Amendment Bill has been published, and which will help us address some of the urgent reforms recommended by the Kriegler Commission."
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