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    "id": 629850,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "March 8, 2016 SENATE DEBATES 21 Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you for recognizing me. Just to add a small thing on what Sen. Wetangula has said. Kenyans must use the elections in Malindi and Kericho as an eye opener. Last evening, we were shocked when we sat before our screens and saw that the results of a county were almost concluded in a record time of two hours, while the one for a constituency took almost ten hours. More shocking, as the results were coming in real time, the votes in the by-election of Kericho were changing by 5,000, 10,000 and 20,000. Was this genuine counting or pre-counted results were being released? Kenyans must know that if we do not remove the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), it has the potential of sending our country to war. The reasons people are very passionate about elections, my dear Senators from the Jubilee side, is because the political leadership is the one responsible for appropriation of resources; the common wealth of the Republic. When those resources are in the hands of people who want to allocate them to only a particular corner of the country, as you have witnessed in the Statement on roads, it is a recipe for chaos in this country. I do not want to impute any bad motive on a colleague, but if some people on that side are---"
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