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    "id": 670682,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mati",
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        "legal_name": "G.J. Munuve Mati",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I stand to reluctantly support this Motion. I want to notify this House that elections are not won or lost on the voting day. There are people who are progressively losing the next election. An election victory or loss is a process that starts from campaigning, registration, mobilisation of equipment and voting. There are now people who are obsessed with the removal of IEBC commissioners. I would like to remind the nation that those commissioners are not from Mozambique or Benin but from Kenya. I wish we could start off by looking and analysing what went wrong, so that we do not pass collective punishment and condemnation of our sisters and brothers who find themselves in those places. I am saying this because for about 15 years of my life, I dealt with elections, both in Africa and elsewhere. I know that we have had a serious problem in Africa, and especially in Kenya, where elections can only be free and fair if someone wins. If he does not win an election, then they must have been rigged. I remember one time when somebody got 200 votes and he claimed that they had been robbed, while the winner had 40,000 votes. We have to be sober in dealing with this matter. If we do not deal with it exhaustively, we will not get commissioners who will stand up to the scale. The elections which are coming will still be declared rigged as long as some people lose. The history of this country is that every election year, people create a crisis."
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