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    "id": 176548,
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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Eseli",
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        "legal_name": "David Eseli Simiyu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me these few moments. I will just say a few things on this by way of supporting. The chicken have finally come home to roost. As they say, a prophet is not recognized at home. What the Kriegler Report has told us here is nothing new. This is something we have always talked about in this country, but nobody has ever recognized it. One, the voter roll is definitely flawed. How can we have a situation where some voter turn-outs are virtually impossible. They are statistically impossible. You get a voter turn out of 80 per cent, 90 per cent and nobody migrated, nobody died and nobody went elsewhere. It is just mathematically impossible. We have known that all long. Take the electoral boundaries. We have always said that there are some people who are so under-represented. It takes the Kriegler Report to tell us to review our electoral boundaries. A new body in charge of the electoral process. We have always said that. If we allow political parties to nominate people to the Electoral Commission and expect them to be impartial, it is virtually impossible. When we keep on saying that it is the ECK that was wrong on December, 27th, I think we are cheating. That is because elections have been stolen in this country since multi-party started in 1992. Every time they have been stolen, we have not killed each. So, there must have been some other reasons why we killed each other. This has made us see that there is something wrong. We called Mr. Kriegler and his team here to put it in black and white, so that we can accept that there is something wrong with us. As we disband the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK), let us have a heart for the poor employees, some of whom are just clerks who only follow directions; I do not think that it would be wise to throw them out just like that; it will like throwing out the bath water with the baby. We cannot do that because we need some institutional memory. We have to keep some people for purposes of retaining institutional memory. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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