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    "id": 52047,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/52047/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Olweny",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Education",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 122,
        "legal_name": "Patrick Ayiecho Olweny",
        "slug": "patrick-olweny"
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    "content": "We need a system that is independent of the executive and cannot be manipulated even by Parliament or anybody that thinks he or she has power in this country. That is the only way we can have confidence in the way we manage our politics. We do not want a system where, like the last elections, the agreements that had been done during the Inter- Party Parliamentary Group (IPPG) were trashed and referred to as a gentlemanly agreement yet it is what led us into having a good general election in 2002. At that time the people who were in the last Government said that they did not care about it. I remember talking to one of the Ministers at that time and told him that they were leading this country into chaos if they threw away the resolutions of IPPG and it came to pass that we had chaos. Even Moi, whom we considered a dictator gave in and allowed for those resolutions that gave us the best elections that we ever had in 2002. I hope that the Commission that we are going to create using this Bill will lead us into a much better system in such a way that no other Kenyan will enforce his or her wishes on to us. That is what led us into chaos. We were forced to accept nominees of certain individuals or an individual to manage elections in this country during the last general elections. That was the main problem that led us into chaos."
}