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    "id": 478344,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ganya",
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        "legal_name": "Francis Chachu Ganya",
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    "content": "and counties. They were fair, very neutral and very free. We must be honest to ourselves. This country voted for the Constitution, which is no longer new, for a reason. We created constitutional bodies for a reason. If they do not perform as per our expectations, we are ready to send them home; that is not right; it is not fair to this country. We had our contest in the Supreme Court and the verdict was very clear; we have to live with it. It is true we have invested in the electronic election equipment in this country; it failed us and we need answers for this. Through your Committee the reforms you have mentioned must be seen to be undertaken. We need reforms so that when we invest billions of shillings to have our process working, it must work and it must be seen to be working. Up to today, we do not know why and how it failed on that particular day and not on any other day. This is because it has been used in by-elections. We need answers. Hon. Deputy Speaker, looking at the totality of the evidence given by the Committee it is very clear that the petitioner was actually using the provisions of the Constitution in a very mischievous way. Actually the Constitution must have sanctions against people who use its provisions for mischief. I think there should be sanctions because the rights that we are given also come with responsibility."
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