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    "id": 52348,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kajwang",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for Immigration and Registration of Persons",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 164,
        "legal_name": "Gerald Otieno Kajwang",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me end by saying that the appointment of these ladies and gentlemen will be a bit contentious. The names will come to this House and we will vote, argue and debate, not about their capacity, but more about: “Is he likely to support my side of the game?” Please, it is not good for you; it is not good for the country or anybody. If the names come here and you are satisfied that they have the integrity, please, vote for them. Let us hold them responsible for the actions that they take. I loved what Ms. Karua said and I think that will come in the Electoral law because it is not likely to be here. We must hold somebody responsible when he knows after counting that Kajwang has won - as I usually win - he just says that now Kajwang has lost, when everybody who is in the village was counting and adding and knows the different result. Immediately Kajwang’s supporters start yelling, they are beaten up and told to go to court. This is the case and yet they know that in the electoral courts in this country, you are not likely to get justice. There are cases which have been thrown away not because they were not good cases, there were no witnesses or evidence, but because somebody went underground and was not served personally with the papers. We know all these things. So, if somebody stands up and instead of doing his work, says the opposite and causes chaos unnecessarily, we must give him a jail term. In fact, there should be no fine for such a fellow. There should be a long jail term, so that people know that when you are sent to oversee an election, you do a good job. You take an oath that if you joke, you go to jail. Hon. M. Kilonzo, you would have done this country a good job if you eventually take somebody in for ten or 50 years. You give him a sentence that will make sure that he dies in jail because they are the ones who have now taken us to The Hague. This is irresponsibility, recklessness and abuse of office. They have now made Kenya a pariah State in front of everybody else. You are given a job, you are even paid for it, you took an oath and know the truth, but you just messed it. You should go to jail for a lifetime so that this country can be a superpower in elections. We were almost a superpower in elections. If we got the last elections right, Kenya would have been a superpower in elections. Everybody respected our Commission all over the world. I travelled to many countries and every time they wanted to come to Kenya to see how Kenya does it. However, now nobody wants to talk about Kenya, because we messed ourselves. Even the United States of America (USA) messed up itself during the time of Bush and Al Gore. So, we are no longer looking at the USA."
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