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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, before I respond, I want to truly thank the Chair for giving enough time to this issue because of its significance and importance to the future of this country. I want to say what I said earlier. This country nearly burnt up because of a bungled election. We are trying to forestall this by constantly reminding everybody, including the executive that we must and we owe this country a duty to do things right. We must avoid any issues, conduct or any behaviour that tend to indicate that we are interfering with the conduct of one of the most critical independent commissions in this country, the IEBC. Therefore, the very idea that IEBC has been directed, even if the commissioners were directed to go and have tea, it will be a violation of the Constitution. Now to respond to the issue raised by Sen. Billow, if a wrong is done, you do not right it with another wrong. Two wrongs do not make a right and they never will. We are together in this. We have the capacity to tell you here and now that we are able to chastise ourselves where we see that we are doing wrong. We are not seeing the wrong that you are doing only. When anybody on this side does wrong, we will say so, because we mean well for this country. More importantly, I want to remind the distinguished Senator for Kiambu that if he believes and thinks that he is coming here to stifle debate or gag Members, the Constitution is here. There is freedom of thought, freedom of expression, freedom to hold opinion and so on. It is my opinion that the elections were won fraudulently. That is my opinion. The Constitution guarantees me to hold my opinion. You can hold yours that it was not fraudulent, you are entitled to it. I will stand with my opinion that you won elections fraudulently until the chicken comes home to roost. Mr. Speaker, Sir, knowing how fair you have been, I want to encourage you to walk in the footsteps of the great, the late Jean Marie Seroney. He ruled that a Member shall not be called upon to substantiate what is obvious."
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