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    "content": "What is more is that the law requires that the sample population should be described. What does Ms. Ambitho tell us on her sample population? She tells us that it was through computer assisted telephone interviews. The law does not say that. The sample population is supposed to be live. What will stop somebody on a telephone interview from calling 100 people to be the ones who will be responding when they have already been prepared? I then read mischief to the extent that this suggests that somebody wanted to make political mileage out of this particular polling. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, how? Who would believe that the Senators for Mandera, Makueni and Kiambu as we know them, are Nos.19, 22, and 23 respectively? The Senator for Murang’a County has scored a mere 51.1 per cent? The Senator for Nyeri, Sen. Kagwe, who does a lot of work in the committees has scored 46.4 per cent. The opinion polling was supposed to make this thing useful to the country. Lastly, if whoever is instigating this wanted to make use of it politically, be it the Nation Media Group (NMG) or any political player, then I should remind Ms. Ambitho that you cannot poll on people in Tana River County and poll on different people in Kakamega County separately and then use the respondents of the people of Tana River County to compare the performance of the Senator for Kakamega County with the Senator of Tana River County. The only way you can compare the Senators for Tana River and Kakamega counties is because the sample population was interviewed on me and Sen. Bule. Otherwise, you are actually playing politics. These same figures of 74.5 per cent and 46.4 per cent could still have been used with due respect. Only that you needed to give that 74.5 per cent of Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo and his potential opponents so that you will say that in the event that he competed against them, he would get 74.5 per cent and then take Sen. Bule with 46.4 per cent and compare him to the people he would be competing against. That would be a fair assessment. I support you and urge Ms. Ambitho to be more scientific and help this country."
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