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    "id": 629853,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Krop Lonyangapuo",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, what we witnessed in Kericho was a competition of political parties that fall under the Jubilee Coalition. We thought it was a healthy competition. We sit on the same side of the Coalition and so, the statements that we heard were not correct; that KANU, my political party, is an opposition party. Those were untruths. However, two scenarios emerged yesterday evening. The IEBC staff in Malindi looked like they were from another country when you compare them to the ones that were in Kericho. The IEBC staff in Kericho either had totally different qualifications or their hands were working like super machines. This is because it took over nine hours to remit results from about 100 polling stations in the Malindi by-election. However, in Kericho, which had over 600 polling stations, the results were being transmitted very fast. In less than two hours, the final results were ready. Also, there is no single polling station in Kericho with over 5,000 voters. Recently, we had a by-election in Nyangores Ward, which had 36 polling stations. It took over eight hours – up to 1.30 a.m. – for the results to be finalized. But yesterday the results were declared just after 9.00 p.m. Since I sit on this side of the Government, we will deal with ourselves and correct one another. In order to defeat the ambitions of Sen. Wetangula and his team to form the Government next year, we must clean ourselves on this side. I agree with Sen. Wetangula that we should address the issue of IEBC now more than ever before. We are ready even to disband it and employ other people, so that we do not experience the type of stealing that we saw. It appears as if looting has moved from The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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