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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the following amendment to the Motion: THAT, the word “nationally” in the second last line be deleted and be replaced by the words, “from each polling station to the national level.” The Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Information, Communication, and Energy derives his Motion from the recommendation by the Kriegler Commission which talked of the electoral process from polling stations up to the various teams at the national tallying centre. I am bringing this amendment so that a station in a place known as Baragoi, Mbita, Mandera Border Point One or El Wak will also be accessible to this technology. I am also saying this because during the referendum, the Interim Independent Electoral Commission (IIEC) decided on some constituencies to carry out the elections on a pilot basis. This is not an issue we should be piloting for purposes of an experiment. This is an issue about political careers of people, decision-making in a country and putting people with responsible leadership in office. I expect experiments to be done when things are still developing. However, the recommendation of the substantive Motion is to develop a modern electronic system. I want that to be appreciated. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you have noticed what I am trying to do in this House – not just in this Motion, but several others – you will find that I want this country to think for a moment that the centre of Kenya is not Nairobi. We know Nairobi is just a capital city. The centre of Kenya is Isiolo. Whatever we do should not be on the basis that it comes from Nairobi and then we take it to Mombasa and Kisumu and then the rest of Kenya can benefit. I want a new thinking in the spirit of a new Constitution. It is very possible that some of the national experiments can start at any point in the Republic including northern Kenyan and, maybe, flow by some other form either gravity or defy the same to Nairobi or Suba. We will be able to talk about Kenya when we speak that way. I said that I must pronounce myself to this Motion because I cannot agree more with Mr. Kajwang and the other speakers before me. We want to make our electoral politics cheaper and the right decisions to be made. We want those who lose to lose fairly and appreciate that they have lost. We also want those who win to appreciate that they won fairly. There are some politicians who think that coming to office should be by any means necessary. They have the concept of Malcolm X in America; that, you can justify fighting racism by any other means. However, the history of the world has taught us more peaceful mechanisms of resolving conflicts. The later Dr. Martin Luther King Junior engaged in non-violent reforms. As we speak today, the presidency of the most powerful nation is not only living the dream of the elites of Kenya, but has actualized it. I watched President Obama the other day speaking from Ireland; he talked of the great great great grandparents from the maternal side. It was through peaceful methods that America realized racial equality. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, again you go to the Asian world; it was none other than Mahatma Gandhi who brought down the curtains on the great empire of the British. It was none other than Winston Churchill who wondered who the half-naked kefir, who was bringing down the empire, was. It was, again, peaceful non-violent methods that brought these countries independence. We celebrate our own Nelson"
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