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    "content": "the trust of everybody. Lawyers will tell you that when you go to court and find that you are unlikely to get justice from a judge, you are entitled as an individual, as a litigant to tell the judge that I do not trust you and you should not preside over my matter, disqualify yourself. That does not mean you disrespect the judge or do not believe in justice. Human nature is such that when you seek justice, you must go to an arena where you feel that there is a sense of justice. As we go to the next elections, I want Kenyans, including myself who has offered myself as a presidential candidate to face an electoral process where I will get fairness. That is why in wisdom we say elections must be free and fair. Free for the voter and fair to the candidate. Then at the end of the day, you leave knowing that Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki got more votes than me because the process was fair. However, if at the end of the elections, winners are declared losers and losers are declared winners under whatever circumstances or you are sent through a whole protracted malicious process like I have gone through because of mismanagement of elections; then, the referee does not deserve to be there. Some of those commissioners are known to us. As individuals, they may be good people but we are not looking for people. We are looking for good honest commissioners. They may be people we have lunch with, laugh and talk with but as long as they are not capable of delivering a credible election as Mr. Kriegler said – as the Motion says in 2(c): That, we want elections that are free and fair and are administered in an impartial, efficient, simple, accurate, verifiable, secure, accountable and transparent manner. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you may remember the IEBC going to the Supreme Court. They were not able to tell the country whether they had a register for elections. They produced three different registers; the black book, the green book and another one. They were not able to tell which one they used to conduct elections. In situations such as these, in a country polarized as we are on political, ethnic, class lines and so many other negatives, you can easily trigger a fireball that you cannot control. That is why after what we have gone through; all these Senators behind me have inhaled toxic teargas. We have been splashed with poisonous water by the police. What did we hear after that? The Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government said, “Kamahamuogi nyumbani nitaendelea kuwaosha .” This is very arrogant and unhelpful. However, now we have reached a level where we forgive him. He did not know what he was saying or if he knew, he did not know it was wrong. We want to have a sober approach. Let those with good ideas take them o the Committee that we are setting up. I am happy that the parties even without the protractions we have heard, we have settled on a team that we all can exhibit confidence with. The team coming from this House including my sister, who is walking away instead of sitting here to listen, are people who are able and capable of executing a brief as important as this. You cannot indict Sen. Murkomen. Sometimes he gets excesses that are unhelpful but I hope that he will go to this Committee and leave behind his bloated image, sit and work with the team. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I would like to end by urging---"
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