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    "id": 671425,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Motion. I want to thank the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD) for choosing me as one of the Members of the team of the Select Committee of fourteen. I also want to thank the heroes and heroines of the teargas Mondays without whose resilience we would not have had this wonderful Motion before this House. I want to send my heartfelt condolences to all those who lost their lives and those who got injured in the process but as they say, there is always a price tag. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, my understanding is that we shall not be meeting to discuss the fate of the IEBC. It is gone. It is finished. It is over. We will only be discussing more important things like I wish to speak to. One, Kenyans must appreciate that why it is that I particularly with a lot of passion, was involved in this thing, the anti IEBC demos to the extent that on one occasion, I participated in Kisumu in the morning, drove very fast and participated in Nairobi. The passion is because of the handling of the presidential election by the IEBC of 2013. How on earth could it be that in the other elective positions like Women Representatives, Member of County Assembly, Senator, Governor and Member of Parliament (National Assembly), the cumulative total vote for each of those positions was 10 million and the one of the president, the cumulative vote was 12 million? Where did these two extra million come from? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, where and why only for the President? Could it be that the 5.3 million votes that hon. Raila got was the real victory and the 6.7 million that The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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