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    "speaker_name": "Hon. M’uthari",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph M'eruaki M'uthari",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I take this opportunity to support this Motion, although it has established a mechanism or a process that is not right. We have used the wrong process to arrive at the right thing. Anyway, it is high time this team that has been put in place looks at the whole electoral process and corrects what is not right. Making it right requires the goodwill of all because whoever is appointed as a commissioner must come from a particular community and have a particular name. At the end of the day, whether you like it or not, you will not get anybody who does not have a political orientation. Whatever the case, we must arrive at a level as leaders in this country, especially those in the Opposition, to accept leadership that is principle-centred. There are values enshrined in our Constitution. Those values are never followed or accepted so they are just in the Constitution. As this team goes round listening to the views of the people, it is my hope that what comes up will be accepted. As it has been put clearly by a number of people, in our country, when people lose elections, they never accept that the elections were free and fair. That is why I believe that those Commissioners, to a certain extent, are victims of circumstances. All the people in this House and all the Members of this Committee were pronounced as winners by the Electoral Commission. However, for the greater good of this country, those Commissioners should just resign and avoid being scandalised because their goose is already cooked. They have no opportunity of remaining in the Commission because, unfortunately, they have already been condemned even before being heard. There is no way they can get over this. The best thing for them to do, if they care about their integrity, is to go home. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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