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    "id": 657776,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogalo",
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        "legal_name": "George Oner Ogalo",
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    "content": "can easily manipulate and ensure that these results change from stage to stage. This House must legislate this time round to ensure that such things are impossible to do. In a country where money can be saved on the phones, how can results fail to have integrity when being transmitted from one station to the next? This House must not fail Kenyans, it must legislate properly. We must look at the election law in totality. We will not be restricted to those sections of the law which have been proposed for amendment in this amendment Bill. If this House can deliver credible elections at the end of its term, it will go into history as the House that cured the future of this country. The issue of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) must be dealt with. Kenyans must go to the elections knowing very well that the referee is fair, has integrity and can deliver an election. We cannot go when we are not sure about the impartiality of the referee. So, this House must ensure that before we go to elections next year, the credibility of IEBC and the confidence of Kenyans in that body has been restored. This must be a bipartisan process where both teams going for the elections are consulted and participate fully before we arrive at the body to carry out elections. The legislation we are going to pass should protect the issue of voter turnout to ensure that we do not have a shifting voter turnout. In 2013, we had an initial 10,800,000 voters participating in the elections. By the time the results were announced, the turnout was over 12 million voters. This cannot be allowed. This must be protected because thievery in elections takes place in the shifting of the total voter turnout. As we deal with this law during the Committee of the whole House stage, let us be open and faithful to our country. We must ensure that we avoid problems like the ones we experienced in 2007/2008 by delivering credible elections to the Republic of Kenya."
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