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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ethuro",
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        "legal_name": "Ekwee David Ethuro",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also wish to support the Bill. I support this Bill because it is bringing sanity, stability and procedures in the way the highest office on the land will be given the dignity it deserves. Unfortunately, we are just learning from one particular incident of 2007/2008, which was as a result of bad manners by Kenyans. That issue cannot be addressed through legislation. The committee will essentially comprise of technocrats appointed by a sitting President. The Bill provides for three persons to be appointed by the President-elect, but when will he or she do so? That will be after the event. Secondly, Africa must learn that assuming an office of this kind is not a guarantee to give goodies to your kinsmen. This Bill must also put some responsibility on the citizenry. I will be looking into how to make this happen. The Bill requires the Inspector- General of the National Police Service to provide adequate security during the swearing- in of a President-elect. How do you give adequate security at Uhuru Park when the citizens just want to touch and feel the President-elect? Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the police cannot create space between him and people. The people make the work of the police nearly impossible. This Bill must also introduce punishments for people who think that, because they do not like the outgoing President, and they like the incoming President; they can treat the outgoing President with contempt by throwing mud and stones at him and try to make the President-elect their own. That is not correct. Once one is elected, he becomes the President of the Republic of Kenya, whether you voted for him or not. So, there should be responsibility on the citizenry, because I see that as one other problem. We have heard stories about some ordinary citizens who had said that they were going to clean State House even before the results of the Presidential elections had been announced. They were behaving as if State House was not adequately resourced. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have witnessed change of power in Africa. We have seen it happen in Malawi and, recently, in Ghana, following the demise of the President of the latter nation. I know that we have also made provisions for ourselves in case of such an eventuality, but what are we going to do when even Ministers have been overheard saying “we want the retired President to see how we can govern” and “let him go and rear goats”?"
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